Bind XREFs in Mulitple Drawings

[Anonymous]

Is there any way to bind an XREF to a drawing across multiple drawings?  We have XREF borders that we use (AutoCAD 2018) across all our drawings that we need to bind to their respective files before we are able to store and save them in the Vault.  Currently, we have to open them all one by one, bind, and then save them.  I'm hoping there is an easier way to do this, because we have well over 800+ of these to go through.

Thanks

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> The Bind option under in ETransmit is grayed out in vanilla AutoCAD as well

There is something wrong, first I thought it's a mechanical situation, and as I don't have AutoCAD Mechanical I was not able to check that.

But now as you say that the same happens with plain AutoCAD (Vanilla) I guess we should look to what you are doing exactly. Can you please show a screencast (>>>click<<<) so we can watch your exact steps?

- alfred -

[Anonymous]

BINDTYPE 1

[mbaezGWFMJ]

I'm trying to figure out if I can bind an xref to a drawing and then edit it within that drawing without affecting any other drawings with the same xref file.

[RSomppi]

When an XREF is bound, it no longer is an XREF. It resides in the host file as a block. Any edits remain within the reference file.

[mbaezGWFMJ]

I see that now. Thank you so much for replying!