items not shown in paper space

[Ghazi Toutounji]

Hi,

 

I am using AutoCAD 2004 and I opened a file that contains xref's. Some items show in model space but don't show in paper space, the paper space being correct as we don't want those items to show. Any idea how this is done because I am using those xref files to create new drawings?

 

Thanks.

[c2designkitchen]

So some of the objects don't show in paper space of the source file, and you want to copy the objects into a new file, and you want to replicate the way some of the objects are not on the page?

 

Maybe you can change the limits of the paper space?

[Ghazi Toutounji]

Sorry if I confused you. What I meant is that the paper space is correct, but if I create a new layout or copy the model into a new drawing I get in the paper space exactly what is in the model space, which is not what I want. I don't know how it was done in the source drawing. The items belong to an xref.

[c2designkitchen]

Sorry I don't know enough to help you very much with this. I think this might have something to do with viewports? Have a look at this tutorial: http://www.cadtutor.net/tutorials/autocad/paper-space-exercise.php

[Ghazi Toutounji]

Thanks anyway for trying to help. I had a very brief look at the Paper space exercise, but I will look in more details later on.

 

Thanks.

[skipsophrenic]

If you know what layers the objects are on you could freeze then.

 

(see attatched images)

 

Unfrozen

 

 

Frozen

 

[Ghazi Toutounji]

That would probably be the way and that's what I am doing, but the difficulty is that I have to check in the xref to see which layers I should freeze, etc.

Thanks.