freebutterflyx Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 I have a drawing with currently 5 xrefs. These Xrefs are not from our company and don't come from autocad. They are a dwg export. Each xref has +-500 layers. I don't want to put them together because these xrefs are changing sometimes. For the first xref, I have applied some changes to the layers: - layers OFF - changed color of layers (mainly change colors to grey - colors 252 tot 254) - changed linetypes - ... I would like to apply these changes to all my Xrefs. Currently 5 xref but more need the be added to the drawing. Can I copy my setting from xref1 tot the other xrefs? All xref have there own name but their layers are the same (some minor exeptions). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OMEGA-ThundeR Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 I would say, if the layers are the same, use one 1 of the xref files as a template (with all the layer settings), remove the content -> copy content from other xref files to the 'template' xref -> save that current xref with a other name -> repeat untill all xref's have been updated. For 5-10 files that shouldn't take more than a few minutes of work (depending on how much information is in them). But i think something like the 'layer states' would do the trick also : https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad-architecture/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2018/ENU/AutoCAD-Architecture/files/GUID-9456C6C9-3D3B-4D49-8763-9D47D9620068-htm.html I'm not sure if that does the trick though, i know for sure my first suggestion would work (unless these layer settings are done in the properties of the objects, and not in the layermanager!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freebutterflyx Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 I still have to look at the use of "layer states" and see if it works. Some xrefs are updated on a regular basis. So it is important that I can simply adjust the xref link to the new file without applying all layer chages again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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