I had a drawing where an item/s had been brought in from someone else's drawing so it came with all their layers.
The item/s appeared to have an XREF to the drawing they came from as it would not let me delete their layers from our drawing. The item/s had been moved to one of our layers and anything I didn't need I deleted, so there was nothing on the layers I wanted to delete. Also when I looked at the XREF palette there were no obvious XREFs.
When I came to delete these layers it came up with the error message about XREFs etc.
Looking on the forums on way to sort it is to merge these layers into another layer, in this instance into one of our own layers, which is what I did in the end.
Questions I have are:
- Do items brought in from another drawing always come with XREFs to that drawing or does it just apply to certain things you bring in like blocks?
- Either way, is there a way of copying items into a drawing without XREFS attached to them?
- Is there another way of actually deleting the layers, rather than merging like I did.
- Failing the above, if merging is the only option, does merging remove any evidence of where the items originated from i.e. do the merged layers have 'properties' that could be accessed showing where those layers came from?
The reason I ask all this, is that we create drawings using items from other people's drawings (our supplier's), but the people we send our drawings to shouldn't know who our suppliers are, so we don't want any reference to our suppliers in our drawings.
Thanks.
