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Xref Layers Still In Another Drawing

Anonymous

Xref Layers Still In Another Drawing

Anonymous
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Hi,

We have a drawing called Ground Floor Plan that we have Xref'd another drawing called Roof into.  The Roof drawing is set as an attachment and Visretain set to 1.  Certain layers have been frozen to get the desired look.  Then drawing Ground Floor Plan is Xref'd (as an attachment) into our sheet file called L(1-)06.  In L(1-)06 the Roof drawing is showing all layers as unfrozen.  I know we could go through the layers via the Xref layer manager and re-turn them off but that doesn't help us moving forward as this drawing (Ground Floor Plan) will appear in other drawings too (requiring the same frozen layers as in the nested Roof drawing).  Sorry if this is confusing!

We have tried various VisRetain settings and XrefOverride to no avail.

 

I have just done the same for 1st and 2nd floors and on these two get the same results.

 

Does anyone know why this is happening? 

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Hi @Anonymous,  When in your Ground Floor Plan drawing that you have the xrefed file attached and layers set go to the layer properties manager and click the Layer States Manager button. Create a New layer state and name it. Then go into the drawings you are xrefing the ground floor plan and go to the layer states manager in that drawing and select the layer state you created and hit the restore button at the bottom of the dialog and it will set the layers like you had them in ground floor plan drawing. 

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Thanks, it seems to work but you have to Restore the layer state in the model space rather than paperspace.  And ensure when creating the state that the other layers not part of the layer state are not turned off when you restore - that took a little while to realise what had happened when tons of info disappeared on the screen!!

My colleague is not sure if the layer state is the real way forward as he believes the issue shouldn't happen in the first place!!

But thanks anyway!

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user181
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Because the roof drawing is an xref in the ground floor dwg when you xref the ground floor the layer state of roof is going to come in exactly as the layers are in the roof drawing when it was last saved. Maybe an option would be to set the layers as you want them in the roof dwg and create the layer state there instead of ground floor and then do the restore layer state in dwgs its xrefed into

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