Script to remove all xrefs in the scene

[Anonymous]

Hello!

I'm new to maxscript and I've been looking everywhere to figure out how to simply delete or remove an xref scene using a macro but I haven't been able to figure it out. I have about a thousand trees that I'm turning into vray proxies and the xref scene has been deleted and now gives me a missing xref error when I load the scene. Anyone know how?

Thanks!

[denisT.MaxDoctor]

xrefs.deleteAllXRefs()

see the maxscript help for details

[Anonymous]

Great! This works perfect! I also figured out that 

xs = xrefs.getXRefFile 1
delete xs

works too 🙂

Now I'm trying to figure out how to replace a part of an object name with something else for example I want to replace elm_tree_07_PROXY-2018 with elm_tree_07_MAIN-2017.

Or cypress_tree_07_PROXY-2018 to elm_tree_07_MAIN-2017 etc...

I have hundreds of tree proxies files that have different name but I have to change all of them that have "PROXY-2018" to "MAIN-2017"

Any ideas? Sorry for being such a noob. I'm just beginning with maxscript.

[denisT.MaxDoctor]

see substitutestring in the mxs help

[Anonymous]

Thank you! I will check it out right now!