Can No Longer Seem to Bind Xrefs

I'm not sure what has happened, because I thought that I was familiar with how to bind an Xref into a drawing - I'm trying to bind my titleblock, but when I send it to my client, there is no titleblock showing. I open the Xref Manager, select the Xref'd titleblock, right-click, select "Bind", and can see that the Xref no longer appears in the list. It has been "bound" into the drawing, right? But no....

I've tried this five times now with no success - any ideas?

I would suggest a couple of things,

check that you don't have any duplicate Block names that have the same name as the title block.

Check also that the layer where the titleblock was is not Frozen/Off.

You could type the command RENAME, it will show you a list of objects/blocks in the Drawing, if the Bound Titleblock is there it will show as a block (the name should be the name of the original XREF) so once you know the name you could try to reinsert it.

hope this helps

Give the xref a purge (under nested objects) and then try again.

This happens a lot. Best workaround I've found is to use eTransmit. Always gets 'em in there.

Thanks, guys - I tried your suggestions, but with no success. It appears that eTransmit is indeed the way I'm going to have to go in this instance.

Is the title block xref'd directly into the drawing or through another dwg?

Also any idea if the xrefs are attached or overlaid? I have found binding attached xrefs problematic at times

Check out the Setvar XREFTYPE, it controls the default reference type when attaching or overlaying an xref

Sounds like a typical AutoCAD issue!

Although this might seem like a cop out, do you definitely need to send a DWG? I know that if the client has no reason to edit your drawings then it would probably be better to send a DWF or for less technically inclined clients.. a PDF.

Is the title block xref'd directly into the drawing or through another dwg?

 

Also any idea if the xrefs are attached or overlaid? I have found binding attached xrefs problematic at times

 

Check out the Setvar XREFTYPE, it controls the default reference type when attaching or overlaying an xref

The title block is directly xref'd in to drawing file, and is bound, not overlaid.

Sounds like a typical AutoCAD issue!

 

Although this might seem like a cop out, do you definitely need to send a DWG? I know that if the client has no reason to edit your drawings then it would probably be better to send a DWF or for less technically inclined clients.. a PDF.

Yes, this drawing must be in .dwg format - it is understood that it may be edited or altered by his CAD technicians, if necessary.