How to copy xrefs from one drawing to another?

[Anonymous]

I have a situation where I created a drawing with several xref images in model space. In layout tab the images appear through viewports in various scales and sizes. I also used our standard company title block page and went to a lot of trouble in labelling parts in the photos with numerous multileader annotations. The drawing was originally intended as a preliminary design for discussion purposes. Since then I have created a set of construction layouts of the design in another drawing file. It was later decided that the preliminary design drawing should be incorporated into the set of contruction layouts in the other drawing file. My question is: how can I copy or import the xref images including the layout notes from the preliminary drawing into the contruction drawing file?
One thing I tried doing was to right-click on my layout tab at the bottom to bring up "Copy new layout from template..." selection. I then navigated to my preliminary drawing file that had the layout I wanted to bring into my construction drawing. I was able to easily copy the layout from the preliminary drawing. The problem is what I expected, that all the model space entites did not copy over. Meaning I have bunch of empty viewport frames in the construction drawing. Only the paperspace entities are showing. Is there a way to easily grab both modelspace and paperspace entities to copy into another drawing?

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Just X-ref the drawing with images and text into your construction layouts drawing and Freeze or Thaw layer of X-ref drawing and images as per your requirement. Secondly you can clip the x-ref as per your requirement. Copy the viewports from old drawing and paste it into new drawing make display on.


Hope this helps

Tom
www.indovance.com

[Anonymous]

how about copying content with a base point (0,0) from one model file to another

cheers

James

[Anonymous]

Yeah just do that with model space, then paper space. Pretty simple.

[Anonymous]

Sometimes the obvious is just too difficult to see.

Thanx very much !