Given XREF CAD DRAWING. CAN NOT COPY IT INTO NEW DRAWINGS. HOW DO I BRING THE CONTENT OF THE XREF INTO ANOTHER DRAWING
Explain a little more. Is it like this? You have a DrawingX that is Xref'd into a DrawingA, and from DrawingA you copy the Xref of DrawingX [with Ctrl+C = COPYCLIP or Ctrl+Shift+C = COPYBASE], and you then want to Paste [Ctrl-V = PASTECLIP, or PASTEORIG] the Xref of DrawingX into a new DrawingB? Like a Border and Title Block Xref in Paper Space Layouts, or a base Floor Plan? That process works for me, so maybe you mean something else.
Kent Cooper, AIA 
Hi,
Your issue need more to explain to really get your point . you may need to check your attached drawing Reference Type ( Attachment \ Overlay ) . Overlaid xrefs will attached just for once NO more .
Imad Habash
>> my goal is to copy the entire project from Drawing A (Which is XREF) into Drawing B (Which is not)
while you're opening B dwg attache A dwg by ATTACH / XR commands then BIND ( Insert ) the A dwg .
Imad Habash
I've typed "attach" in the command prompt and now I am here.
i prepared a screencast for you on how to attache your needed file and how to bind it .
Imad Habash
Ok so, the "attach" command worked. Now, I've run into another problem. I need to merge all of the layers into 1 layer. How can I merge these layers?
check my previous message #8 then after bind you'll get normal layer names ( don't forget to explode your inserted xref ). for merging layers type Layer command then select your needed layers then right mouse click and select Merge selected layers option as shown below .
Imad Habash
@Anonymous wrote:
I'm unable to bring the content of an Xref CAD drawing into another drawing? How can I move the content of the Xref CAD file into a new drawing?
I'm beginning to wonder something else. There is no such thing as "an Xref CAD drawing." There are only drawings, and while one can be Xref'd into another one, so that it's an external reference in the other one, in itself it's still just a drawing. It may have been drawn with the purpose of its being Xref'd into other drawings, but that's a distinction in usage, not in the nature of the drawing itself.
So I'm wondering whether what you really want is to simply INSERT the drawing that you're referring to as an "Xref drawing" into the new one. If Xref-ing and then Binding does what you want, you don't need the "middle-man" of Xref-ing -- just INSERT it. You can then EXPLODE it if you want the pieces independent, or you can leave it as what will be a Block in the new drawing. [Or you can INSERT it pre-exploded, rather than INSERT and then EXPLODE.] The Layer names will be "plain" as they are in the source drawing, without the compound Drawing-name|Layer-name format.
Kent Cooper, AIA