Xref attach: Relative path cannot be assigned... huh?

[MarcoW]

Hi there,

I wanted to attach an image as Xref to my drawing. I like to set my Xref's relative but in this occasion I get the error "Relative path cannot be assigned".

Why is this? Anyone got any ideas?
My version of AutoCAD is 2011 btw.

Thanks in advance.

[Cad64]

Have you saved your drawing yet? Relative paths cannot be assigned until you save your drawing.

[MarcoW]

Hello CAD64,

Thank you for taking time to help me out.

The drawing itself is already saved, I have been working on it some time.
So that might not be the problem... I got a different message / alert (compared to your example) that said "Relative path cannot be assigned".

Now I wanted you to show the message, but now it does not pop up anymore.. What did I do?

But I am shure it is the same way! When I got the message, I attached it with a full path, after that I deleted the path and put in the dot ("./images/image.jpg") and it worked.

I figure that if "it works manually, but not automatically, and both ways should do the same" there might have been a temporary bug or something in the AutoCAD session that was currently opened.

Anyway, for now there seem to be no more problems, but if it appears to be back, then I will be back here

Thanks again,
Regards,
MarcoW.

[Tiger]

From Help:

If the file that is being referenced is located on a different local hard drive or on a network server, the relative path option is not available.

This is just when attaching the file though, since I successfully have almost all x-refs as relative even though everything is on servers.

[KiLLiNG-TiME]

I have beeing seeing this issue since the office upgraded to 2010 drawings are saved (including the xrefs) same server etc, if its a bug its carried over from 2010 nicely ..