reyems Posted March 3, 2009 Posted March 3, 2009 I have been tasked to clean up AutoCAD drawings sent from our outside architect. The drawings are saved in a 2004 format, though I am using ACAD 2009lt. The xref menu lists a number of items that the architect never sent along. All of these items were either gif or bmp files. Since I do not have these items (they clearly list a path of the C drive belonging to one of the architects) I would like to delete the reference, but do not know how. Any thoughts? Thanks. Quote
Organic Posted March 3, 2009 Posted March 3, 2009 Right click and delete them. I wouldn't though, I'd be asking for the images. Quote
reyems Posted March 3, 2009 Author Posted March 3, 2009 Thanks for replying so quickly. Right click, delete is not an option. When I right click I only have the choices of attach, unload or reload. Quote
Organic Posted March 3, 2009 Posted March 3, 2009 Don't know then. Sorry, don't have access to autoCAD at the moment. Quote
Jadeous Posted March 3, 2009 Posted March 3, 2009 I agree with Dink. The bmps and gifs are probably important otherwise the architect would not have them in the drawing. It would probably be best to ask the architect to either sent you the missing files or ask them to bind the files into the drawing and resend it to you. Quote
reyems Posted March 3, 2009 Author Posted March 3, 2009 sorry, should have mentioned earlier that the gif and bmp are not needed or wanted by the people asking me to clean up Quote
rkent Posted March 3, 2009 Posted March 3, 2009 Find some real small gif and bmp files, now copy and rename them to the names the file is looking for. Now either just leave them in there or open the files and the xref detach will work. Quote
Jadeous Posted March 3, 2009 Posted March 3, 2009 Aw. Sounds like they might be an Xref themselves. you should be able to select them and then press delete. If not, you can try to unload or detatch. If that doesn't work, then you might need to grab all of the things you do want to keep and copy n paste them into a new drawing. Trash the old file and name the new file the same name. Sometimes AutoCad gets suck when it comes to Xrefs. Quote
chelsea1307 Posted March 3, 2009 Posted March 3, 2009 sometimes jif, bmp, jpeg and similar files arent able to be detached on your xref list because they are not directly xrefed into that dwg but xrefed into a dwg that is xrefed into your dwg, if that is the case then you need to find out which dwg they are xrefed into in order to detach them. hope that makes sense Quote
reyems Posted March 3, 2009 Author Posted March 3, 2009 That was it! Thanks...got rid of them in an xref'd drawing. Thanks to everyone who offfered advice. Quote
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