stuck in refedit Civil 3D 2019

sfore
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stuck in refedit Civil 3D 2019

sfore
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Has anyone experienced being stuck in refedit in 2019? I'm in Design file but editing Base File via refedit. It worked yesterday, but today is not?

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AllenJessup
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I'm presuming you've tried Refclose. I Googled "AutoCAD Refedit Slow" and got multiple hits. No one solution popped out at me. But you might want to go through them.

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Hidden_Brain
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does commandline>refclose end session for you?

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sfore
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I tried typing refclose at command line multiple times. Still stuck.

 

My base file has a saved date of today at 12:17 but I don't remember getting out of refedit today. I've been in it pretty much all day. So, if I have to kill it, at least I only lose a few hours of work.

 

I can't think of anything I would've done to corrupt the refedit session. Some of the things I've done while in refedit include draw, move, copy, insert blocks and create layers and/or move things to new layers.

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sfore
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I ended up killing drawing and lost several hours of work. Lets try it again!

 

I opened up design file again, gripped Base xref, right-click, edit xref in place, made  2 revisions that included copying a gas meter block and drawing a gas line polyline, clicked save changes on edit reference ribbon panel, clicked ok and drawing was still locked in refedit.

 

I killed drawing again and then re-opened design file and base xref changes were there. I opened up Base drawing and sure enough the changes were there. So it doesn't make sense why now that I can't exit refedit mode, but changes are being made.

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sfore
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Yeah, found a few interesting posts including this one: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/civil-3d-forum/i-am-done-with-refedit/td-p/8071200

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sfore
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I am now able to save and exit refedit mode. I've done nothing different. As a matter of fact, I re-did the same changes I did earlier today that was lost when refedit wouldn't close. Makes no sense!

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tcorey
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Rather than Refedit, try openxref. 



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Jeff_M
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What Tim said. I quit trying to use Refedit on Xrefs back c.2008, as I always encountered issues including what you are seeing. Use the Xrefopen, edit, save, reload in target dwg.

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sfore
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Thanks, appreciate feedback. I'll give that workflow a try.

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HenryClaudio
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When this happens to me, I'm able to escape out of REFEDIT mode by "Disregarding any changes" and just not saving any ref edits. Obviously, the fallback is that any changes you made to the reference file will be lost.

Sorry. This the only method I know of.

"REFCLOSE, Disregard reference changes, ENTER".

 

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