Xref issue

Hi guys

I am working on a large drawing of a beachfront promenade upgrade.

I have xref'ed the new design onto the drawing but need to change the shade of the colour they used in this xref'ed drawing.

If I need to make it lighter do I need to do this on the original xref and then xref it back in with the changes or is there another way to do it on my existing drawing?

Regards

If you have VISRETAIN set to 1, then you can change info on the layers in the xref directly in the drawing. VISRETAIN set to 0 means that every time you open your drawing, the x-ref is loaded in as new, so all changes that you make to the x-refs layers are gone.

Otherwise I would do like you said, change stuff in the original drawing - except that I would save a true original first, so that if you mess up the x-ref, you always have and original to go back to.

VISRETAIN was initially set to 1 and yet it still will not allow me to select anything aside from the entire xref so I will do it the other way.

Thanks Tiger

Well no, you can't select anything aside from the entire xref, perhaps I was unclear. What I mean is that you can change the layer-settings of the xref while your drawing, like On/off, Thawed/frozen, color, lineweight etc. All this that can be changed in the Layer Manager.

Ok sorry I misunderstood.

In that case my problem could only have been solved by doing what I did (change original xref and "reinstall" it) as the xref has 4 or 5 colours on it.

Thanks

Ok sorry I misunderstood.

In that case my problem could only have been solved by doing what I did (change original xref and "reinstall" it) as the xref has 4 or 5 colours on it.

 

Thanks

If the drawing being xrefed in is drawn with various layers and all objects on a layer have the color set to bylayer then you can change the colors in the host drawing and visretain 1 will keep those changes.