XREF Reloading

[happyunited]

Whenever I change the colour of a layer in a drawing which is being XREF into a drawing it never seems to update the colour. The little box will pop up telling me I need to reload and I do that, it seems to be going through the motions and then it doesn't change. The only way I can get it to show the colour change is to unload and reload the XREF but this is a pain as I often have layers within the xref switched off in different viewports etc

 

Anyway round this?

 

Thanks in Advance.

[lpseifert]

Sounds like your sysvar Visretain is set to 1, Change the color of the layer in the dwg you are working in.

[happyunited]

Sounds like your sysvar Visretain is set to 1, Change the color of the layer in the dwg you are working in.

 

VISRETAIN is set to 1, what does this control?

 

Yes, I can change the colour in the drawing but then my XREF dwg hasn;t changed.

[lpseifert]

From Help...

 

VISRETAIN (Quick Reference)Controls the properties of xref-dependent layers. Controls visibility, color, linetype, lineweight, and plot styles.

 

 

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The layer table, as stored in the reference drawing (xref), takes precedence. Changes made to xref-dependent layers in the current drawing are valid in the current session only and are not saved with the drawing. When the current drawing is reopened, the layer table is reloaded from the reference drawing and the current drawing reflects those settings. The layer settings affected are On, Off, Freeze, Thaw, Color, Ltype, LWeight, and PStyle (available only in named-plot style drawings).

 

 

 

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Xref-dependent layer changes made in the current drawing take precedence. Layer settings are saved with the current drawing's layer table and persist from session to session.