Since AutoCAD 2007, the Xref Manager has changed from this: to this: Personally, I prefer the old-school version, for two reasons. One, it loads faster, and two, it is easier to change an xref from Attachment to Overlay.
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Classic Xref
Posted in autocad, old school on December 20, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Filtering in AutoCAD
Posted in autocad, old school on October 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Lynn Allen has a great post on filtering objects with the FILTER command.
Layer Freeze 2004
Posted in autocad, hacking, lisp, old school on October 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A blast from the past I was getting frustrated with the way Layer Freeze in AutoCAD 2008 (and maybe 2007?) handles blocks nested within xrefs. If you have a block which contains entities on layer 0, which is itself on a different layer, and the whole thing is in an xref, and you use 2008 [...]
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