XREF error

[qball]

autocad 2007 - i use lots of blocks and xrefs in my plans of apartment buildings. i will overlay the architectural plans as an xref and unload and reload as necessary (not to be confused with xref - overlay). since switching to acad 2007 i'm finding that when i go to the xref dialog box it's grey (instead of white and i can't change the xref's) when i type xref in the command line this message appears:
EXTERNALREFERENCES command not allowed during reference editing
but i don't have any references being edited at the time. i can do any other functions normally not allowed while reference editing. i save, close the file and reopen and it's fine again for a while. anyone have this or have a solution to the problem?

[StykFacE]

are you doing this while in the middle of editing a block? if so type REFCLOSE and then try it.

[qball]

no blocks or references are being edited at the time. refclose brings up the same message as before (EXTERNALREFERENCES command not allowed during reference editing). it's strange.

[qball]

anyone had this problem (solution) yet?

[fuya_inc]

To the top!

Acad 2008

Same issue as the OP. REFCLOSE says nothing is checked out for editing.

Close and re-open the drawing and everything is back to normal.

But why does it happen in the first place?

[qball]

Just switched to Acad 2010.... same problem. Any other ideas on solutions in the last while?

[Coosbaylumber]

Seems like one of your parent drawing files or an XREF one has a "Read Only" attribute to it. Which may not be your fault.

Got to get rid of them before proceeding.

Wm.