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Owyyn
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Joined: 11 Oct 2002
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 Posted: 01/08/04 - 13:05 Post subject: AutoCad guru's...
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I'm having a problem with Autocad 2002 that's making me pull my hair out. Basically I'm working with somebody elses drawings, and he did them kinda f****d up.
I have to make a 2D model from a 3D model for our graphics artist to edit and put into the assembly instructions.
The problem is the guy who made all these drawings I'm working with used lots of XREF's. I'm using the SOLPROF command to make the 2D vector image, but it won't work with the XREFs. So I need to be able to make all the XREF's in the drawing resident.
I've tried using REFEDIT, which works somewhat, but instead of just copying the XREF to the drawing, it cuts it to the drawing, ie making the original XREF file blank. This is bad.
Next I just used the command XREF for the manager, and tried to bind all the XREF's to the drawing. It seems like it works, I lose all my XREF, but SOLPROF still doesn't recognize the XREFs as part of the drawing.... WHY?
Help please.  If this didn't make any sense let me know and I'll try to explain it a little better.
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Owyyn
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Posted: 01/08/04 - 13:41 Post subject:
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nm... EXPLODE... duh
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nytebyter
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Joined: 12 Oct 2002
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Posted: 01/08/04 - 15:02 Post subject:
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rofl
I own an engineering company and am the Acad guru here.
I had some long response and at the end, it suggested EXPLODING it first, but then I saw your response.
good catch. don't ya hate it when the obvious get's overlooked, and then you are like DOH!
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Owyyn
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Posted: 01/08/04 - 16:06 Post subject:
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Ok here's another dumb one... how do I turn off all layers at once? I'm getting kinda sick of clicking 500 times to turn em all off. 
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nytebyter
Luke Warm
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Posted: 01/08/04 - 17:32 Post subject:
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Do you have express tools?
If so, select your working layer, and hit Express -> Layers -> Layer Isolate.
Turn everything back on with Express -> Layers -> Turn All Layers On
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nytebyter
Luke Warm
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Posted: 01/08/04 - 17:41 Post subject:
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If you dont have Express tools:
Open your Layer Manager (type layer in command line or hit icon)
Select top layer
Scroll down to bottom
Shift + Select bottom layer
(or Shift+Down Arrow to select all layers)
All layers should not be selected
Click the lightbulb icon and they will all turn off
Turn back on the same way.
G'luck.
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Owyyn
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Posted: 01/08/04 - 17:55 Post subject:
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Sweet thanks... you're awesome.
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nytebyter
Luke Warm
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Posted: 01/09/04 - 12:50 Post subject:
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Us AutoCad geeks gotta share da 411, ya'know.
No problem...
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