Layer States

[Anonymous]

Hey guys,

question for the masses, if i have some layer states set up for a particular set of engineering drawings and i want to use them on other drawings is there a trick when you have the following constrant

1. the xrefs all have a unique project number in front, which is different from project to project, but the layers used are basically the same.

my issue is that AutoCAD doesnt bother looking at the layer name within an xref, but treats it as "XX00000-XREF NAME | LAYER NAME"

I thought of replacing some of the data within the LAS file with a wildcard, but that didnt work, so next step would possibly be a lisp or macro, but before i start on that i dont know of any other customisations available. 

[hmsilva]

With Auto LISP,
read a source.las, search for "| LAYER NAME", change the "XX00000-XREF NAME | LAYER NAME", write the new "XX00000.las".

Just a thought...
Henrique

[Anonymous]

You can rename your xref's after they are attached to drop the project number so every project will have the same xrefs.