XREF Questions, Autocad 2000

[renaldo2006]

I work for a company that produces engineering drawings consisting of maps showing telecommunication cables, etc. Here is what I'm doing now. I open a new drawing, got to xref manager, and attach the main composite drawing which is a large map. Then I xclip the portion of the map I want to separate into an individual map. The main map and the new drawing are in the same folder. This works great as long as I stay on the same computer. Today I emailed both maps (source map and clipped map) to another office. When they opened the clipped drawing, it was blank. Some of these I have done successfully but these will not seem to attach even though they are attached according to the xref manager and the path is correct. The get a message about it being a "read only" file and the clipped drawing doesn't load. We are on a network in the office where I am located if that makes a difference. I would appreciate any help. Are xref's that "picky" or am I overlooking something very obvious. Thanks in advance, Renaldo

[Cad64]

When you're working on drawings in your office, your xrefs and images are pathed to your network so they can be found easily. When you send files to someone outside of your office, those paths are no longer valid. You should look into using the Express Tools Pack 'n Go utility when sending files to another office. See here for details: http://management.cadalyst.com/cadman/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=101756

It also sounds like you may have an image inserted into one of the drawings? If so, did you send that along with the drawing files?

[renaldo2006]

Actually, the xclipped file is a portion of a larger map, so is that classified as in image? I thought of one more question after I posted the original one. If I change the path to a different location in xref manager, click save path, click reload, the old path keeps reappearing. Not that this has any bearing on the original (maybe it does). Any other help would be appreciated and I will try. I will check into pack and go. Thanks a lot. Renaldo

[riga]

Just a guess. Maybe your path is set on "full path" so when you sent it to another PC the path can't be find. Did you tried to set the path type to "relative path" before sending it....
If I didn't get your problem and my answer was OT please forgive me.... my english is awfull :(

[Cad64]

Could it be that you are working with nested xrefs? In other words, do you have drawing "A" xref'd into drawing "B" and then drawing "B" is xref'd into drawing "C"? This could be part of the problem.