Managing Xref Overrides

[lee_kennewell]

I use AutoCAD 2024.  I am trying to use xref overrides in a way that suits my design work, however, I am either not using AutoCAD correctly or perhaps I'm expecting AutoCAD to behave in way it cannot work.  I include a simple example that hopefully explains what I am trying to achieve:

1. Attached is the file “test 1” – it has objects on their own layers with a set line colour & set line type.
2. Attached is the file “test 1a” that has file “test 1” brought in as an xref, with the original layers overwritten to show the objects with different properties (line colour = red, Line type = hidden).
3. Attached is file “test GA” where I have introduced file “test 1a” as an xref in the hope I see the objects with line colour = red & line type = hidden:  This is the desired result.  However, AutoCAD, is not showing me this.  Instead, the original line colours and line type are shown, i.e what features in “test 1”.

Question:  Within the file “test GA”, I want the xref, “test 1a”, to show line colour = red & linetype = hidden.  How to do this?

[pendean]

VISRETAIN settings in the top file is...? and VISRETAINMODE?

Is your XREF on layer 0? It should be it's own layer.

Are all objects in all three files set to BYLAYER for color and linetype?

[cadffm · Accepted solution]

Hi Lee,

you can't do it (or you have to do it a second time, manually).

XRef-Layeroverrides are not inherited from the referenced file.

[lee_kennewell]

VISRETAIN settings in the top file is...? [Lee.K:  Set to “1”] and VISRETAINMODE? [Lee.K Set to “496”]

Is your XREF on layer 0? It should be it's own layer. [Lee.k:  It wasn’t but now I have set it to its own layer (set to BYLAYER).

Are all objects in all three files set to BYLAYER for color and linetype?  [Lee.k: Yes.].

[jordanlVZ3DT]

Did you ever find a solution for this problem. I posted the same problem and never got a good response. The only way around it was LAYERSTATE. Create a new layer state in test1a.dwg and it will show up in TESTGA.dwg

[RSomppi]

Do the first two response's that describe how AutoCAD handles this help you at all?

[jordanlVZ3DT]

No. There has to be a way.

If username: cadffm is correct with his response: "you can't do it (or you have to do it a second time, manually).

XRef-Layeroverrides are not inherited from the referenced file." Then my answer is yes.

[RSomppi]

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@jordanlVZ3DT wrote:

No. There has to be a way.

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There isn't.

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@jordanlVZ3DT wrote:

If username: cadffm is correct with his response: "you can't do it (or you have to do it a second time, manually).

XRef-Layeroverrides are not inherited from the referenced file." Then my answer is yes.

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You got it.

[pendean]

 @jordanlVZ3DT  "...XRef-Layeroverrides are not inherited from the referenced file..." is a good observation.

Feel free to ask for new features in the program from Autodesk anytime and often, that's at another website, here is the link:

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HTH

[jfoland]

Change the XREFOVERRIDE setting to 1 instead of 0. Then all overrides will in the drawing you're linking the xref into will apply.