Tiff2 Posted January 3, 2011 Posted January 3, 2011 AutoCAD 2009. I am working in a drawing containing an X-Ref. Model space now appears to be blank. Zoom Extents gives me nothing. X-Ref still shows loaded. Viewports on all layout tabs still show the entire drawing as though nothing has happened. What has happened in Model Space? Thanks for the help. Quote
JPlanera Posted January 3, 2011 Posted January 3, 2011 The only thing in the drawing is an xref??? type XDWGFADECTL at the command line... that value should be set to 0 Quote
JPlanera Posted January 3, 2011 Posted January 3, 2011 upon reflecting... that setting is not available in acad 2009...... post your drawing here for us to poke around with Quote
Tiff2 Posted January 3, 2011 Author Posted January 3, 2011 The X-Ref is not the only thing in the drawing. Any advice? Quote
Guest Posted January 3, 2011 Posted January 3, 2011 This may be a silly answer, but have you checked to see if there are any layers frozen, or turned off? Quote
Jack_O'neill Posted January 4, 2011 Posted January 4, 2011 I once had a client that would create drawings like that. Drawing A would have B, C and D xreffed to it, as well as a bit of it's own content. Drawing E would be nothing but a title block and an xref to drawing A. He would send me Drawing E via email, but none of the others. Most of the time I'd get a titleblock and some disembodied geometry, maybe a dimension or 2, and nothing else. It would take several rounds of emails and phone calls to get everything. Quote
Cad64 Posted January 4, 2011 Posted January 4, 2011 Viewports on all layout tabs still show the entire drawing as though nothing has happened. What has happened in Model Space? If you can see everything in your layout viewports, but model space appears blank, that's usually because of random objects that are floating around far out in space. Far away from your drawing. So when you do a zoom extents, everything zooms way, way, way out so that model space appears empty. Try hitting Ctrl+A and look for little blue grips in the corners of the drawing area. Or just pan around and roll your scroll wheel to zoom in and out and watch closely for movement. You should see tiny dots moving around on screen. One of those dots will be your drawing. The rest is probably just junk. You will need to figure out which dot is your actual drawing and then start checking out the floaters that are causing the problem. You should be able to delete the junk, but be sure you verify that it is in fact junk before deleting. Quote
Jack_O'neill Posted January 4, 2011 Posted January 4, 2011 You could do "erase" "all" just don't hit the enter key after all and it will count the objects in the drawing for you. Move or copy followed with "all" will do that as well. You could also simply double click inside the viewport while in layout, then list some object to find out it's coordinates. That would tell you how far from 0,0,0 you are in that viewport. Quote
Tiff2 Posted January 4, 2011 Author Posted January 4, 2011 Thank you all so much for your help! Quote
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