Is this possible? Creating details via a double XREF

[Anonymous]

Hello,

So here's my conundrum. I'm attempting to create details from an original drawing that has been XREF into a second drawing four times. Each of those XREF's are then XCLIP on different parts of the original drawing to create boundaries for the details. I saved the second drawing, then XREF that drawing into the original drawing.

I can XREF the second drawing into the first one but inside the XCLIP boundaries the drawing doesn't appear. 

Thanks for reading,

Gary 

[RobDraw · Accepted solution]

It sounds like you are creating a circular reference. AutoCAD doesn't like that.

[Anonymous]

I see. I guess that would explain it. I'd be nice if that type of feature could work on Autocad but I'm sure it gets complicated. Thanks for the help.

[RobDraw]

It might be possible if you set the XREFs to overlay.