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Anonymous
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Hello all! 

 

I am totally stuck on a project.  I need to do a simple electrical grounding drawing(2d) but i have plans that were given to me with tons of xrefs(3d) in the drawing and about a million layers.  i can barely navigate through the drawing.  Anyone have any suggestions of how i can explode these xref"d drawings and put condense them all into one layer? 

 

-Joe

Autocad 2016

Dell i7 8 core

windows 7

16G ram 

 

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jackshield
in reply to: Anonymous

bind xrefs as blocks and work from there

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Anonymous
in reply to: jackshield

i tried that Jack, they would not bind due to a proxy error.  

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Anonymous
in reply to: jackshield

i tried that Jack, they would not bind due to a proxy error.    

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jackshield
in reply to: Anonymous

do you have the xref files?

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Anonymous
in reply to: jackshield

yes

 

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paullimapa
in reply to: Anonymous

One quick way maybe to create a dwf from the drawing with all those xrefs which will combine everything into a single layer and then in a new drawing attach the dwf and then you can draw over it with your electrical grounding.

 

 

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Message 8 of 8
neaton
in reply to: Anonymous

If you know you only need the wall layers use the XLIST command to determine the wall layer names. Once those are determined you can turn off the layers you don't need in the XREFs in the Layer Manager.

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