I am trying to work with a drawing that apparently has a large amount of XRef's that is tying up a whole bunch of layers. I am trying to parse it down to what I actually need and import it to my drawing.
Is there a way of getting rid of the XRefs and/or the layer they were on?
Using Land Desktop 3 or Map 2002.
Thanks,
James
I haven't been on CAD in almost a year but...
XR, then detach the x-refs or delete them...? Then purge the layers.
Wow....it's been a while. I'm using Civil 3D, but I think typing XREF will bring up the XREF manager and you can unload them or detach them in there. Right click on the drawing or image or whatever it is and click detach to completely remove and disassociate it. Alternatively you can hit unload which will just hide it but it can easily be brought back.
I think that's how it works. I haven't used LDD in a while.
I usually go at it from the other direction -
open new sheet (this has the benefit of having your preferred styles, units etc;)
back in the original drawing select what you want to use, (right click) copy then paste in the new sheet, "to original co-ordinates" generally.
can paste as block if you want to move, rotate, scale it to a different coord system.
I found deleting xrefs etc; infuriating as there alwayss seemed to be hangers on no matter how much I purged.
I am generally changing units from mm to metres anyway.
OK, I found the XRef manager and got rid of everything there. That allowed me to purge a few layers. Got rid of 5 pages of paper space and got rid of some more layers. Exploded all blocks except for some column line labes and got rid of some more layers.
That got me from 60+ wasted layers to 7 layers that don't appear to have anything on them. I can live with that.
Thanks for the help.
James
Use Ncopy to copy any objects you would need from the xref into the main drawing, then detach the xrefs after you get what information you need. Or open the xref files and wblock out the required information and insert into your drawing.
If you still are finding layers that do not have anything on them, and you are sure that there is nothing on them, you can use the LAYDEL command.
You can use by drawing a line or anything on this layer, swithcing to a different layer, and then using the command.
Or you can use the LAYDEL and type in the name of the layer you want to delete.
JUST REMEMBER THAT IT DELETES THE LAYER AND ANYTHING THAT IS ON THAT LAYER.
I tried the LAYDEL and it was not a recognized command. I googled it, apparently it was added to Autocad in 2007. I was kinda shocked that they actually added something useful in later versions. Usually they just complicate things that are already there.
James
> I was kinda shocked that they actually added something useful in later versions. Usually they just complicate things that are already there.
Don't worry, they did that too.