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XREF changes will not show in my drawing
It is possible to change layer settings on external reference drawings ( xref ) in the main drawing. Whether or not these changes are retained between sessions is controlled by the system variable VISRETAIN. This variable is set in the main drawing. The settings for VISRETAIN are: 0 - Any chan ...
The dialog box isn't showing up in AutoCAD
If the dialog box does not show up for commands such as SAVEAS, IMPORT or OPEN, check the setting of the FILEDIA system variable. The settings are: 0 - Dialog boxes WILL NOT show. 1 - Dialog boxes WILL show. When FILEDIA is set to 0, AutoCAD reverts to the command line version of commands such ...
Drawing template won't open
Drawing templates (.dwt files) can only be saved as the version in which they were created. It is not possible to save them to a lower version, as can be done with .dwg files. To create a lower version template file from a higher version of AutoCad, the file needs to be saved as a .dwg file in ...