donaldo Posted August 9, 2012 Posted August 9, 2012 I have received a drawing from a designer, as I often do, but cannot locate the drawing in the model due to unresolved x refs? I have seen this many times on previous drawings but just ignored and continued but on this occassion I cannot find the drawing once I continue! When I open the drawing I get the message: One or more referenced files have not been located or read. What do you want to do? Update location of ref files Ignore and continue. I understand that the drawing is there somewhere as the preview pane on the open dialogue box shows the model outline but when I open it after going beyond the above step there is no model and only the 0 layer. Hopefully someone can shed some light on this for me. Thanks. Quote
dbroada Posted August 9, 2012 Posted August 9, 2012 an XREF is a link to another file. You NEED this file (where it is expected) to see the entire drawing. You are seeing it in the preview as that is just a graphical snapshot of the drawing when the file was saved. If it was saved on the designer's computer the other files will have been present. You can ask the designer to supply either the files he has XREFed or one with the XREFs bound as blocks. We never use XREFs so I can't advise on the best methods but basically you don't have enough info to procede. Quote
donaldo Posted August 9, 2012 Author Posted August 9, 2012 Ok, I think I grasp what you are saying but I will get back in touch with the designer if it is not a problem at my end. Thanks Dave. Quote
RobDraw Posted August 10, 2012 Posted August 10, 2012 Did you receive the files that were being referenced? If so, you can repath to the location that you saved them. Quote
donaldo Posted August 10, 2012 Author Posted August 10, 2012 I was sent an additional file (DWG) which had the info I needed as well as the original drawing which did not have the relevant info, in fact no info as far as I could make out. I was also sent a note that I may need to re x-ref in the master drawing? Sorry but this all sounds a bit alien to me! I did a basic 2D course to get me going in CAD and the rest I have had to pick up. Perhaps its time for a more advanced course! Quote
RobDraw Posted August 10, 2012 Posted August 10, 2012 An XREF is an external reference which means that the information from that file is being referenced into another file. The referencing file needs to know where to find that file. There are three ways to do this pathing but you don't necessarily need to know which way it was done in order for the base file to find the XREF. If you put both files into the same folder, AutoCAD will find it. Quote
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