External references

Hi all, hopefully someone can help me here,

I've been asked to create several drawings using one external reference which contains doors, bund walls, lighting etc. My question is how do I take this external reference and create several new drawings when I cant even turn layers on or off once I have inserted it onto my new page?

I hope that makes sense

first question: how do you insert the DWG with the doors, walls and lighting? You have to attach it as an X-ref to a new DWG for it to work as an x-ref (doh! too early to create decent sentences, apologies in advance)

Second: in that DWG, is everything drawn on the same layer? Is that layer 0? That would explain why you can't turn on and off the stuff individually.

Oh, and welcome to the forum

Hi there, and thanks for your help!

The thing I cant get though is that there are many layers in the x-ref, and they are still present once I move it to my new dwg, however it wont let me turn them on/off to create a different drawing from it, sorry for being a pain

You can't click the Light-icon in the Layer Manager? Is it greyed out? Or is nothing happening when you click the light-icon? Are you in Model Space? Not seeing things through a Viewport? There is another Light icon for VP Freeze (if you are using that instead of the light switch)

Try VISRETAIN=1.