AutoCAD 2013 :: XREF Layers - Any Way To Merge

Apr 26, 2013

When you XREF a drawing from another file that file is brought in along with all of its layers. Personally I do not need these layers for my access is there anyway I can combine all these to eliminate the large quantity of layers in my file? Say by layer merging. And if I do will this affect the ability of the file to revise itself?

Explanation: What I am doing is taking a bunch of engineering drawings, XREF them into my file, then creating seperate viewports for each drawing referenced in. But the key is I need these files to adjust automatically when the engineers make changes (This is done through the XREF command from what I gathered from one of my previous posts).

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How not to carry some layers when i xref a file into another.

for example,

i have a base file with  x-1,x-2,x-3 layers. when i xref the base file into a main file, i only want x-1 & x-3 layer to show up in the main file.

is there any way to control what layers can be see in xref with out using freeze/off commands.

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May 8, 2013

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In my current version of Autocad Civil 3D 2010,  when I follow the same steps as above and run the FL (freeze layer) command inside the viewport, the entire layer contents within the viewport freeze as if everything is on that one layer.

I notice that if I pull up the layer manager box and go down the list of xref'd layers and select the freeze in viewport option for each of the layers I need to freeze it will do what I need to have done,  But I'd like to be able to be able to selectively freeze these layers visually within the viewport like I've always been able to do, instead scrolling down a long list of layer names and freezing them that way.

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This discussion was opened in 2010 and I quess this is same problem:
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How to merge adjustment layers to hundreds of layers?

Jul 28, 2010 10:38 AMSay I have a photoshop File with 100 layers. 

And say I created 3 adjustment layers on top of those 100 layers to get the adjustments that i want for those layers.   I'm happy with the adjustments but Then I NEED to merge those 3 adjustment layers to ALL those 100 layers.  

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So far what I've been doing is duplicating the adjustment layers for each layer and merging them to said layers separately.. I wish I could just right click the adjustment layer and Tell it to merge to everylayer it affects  or apply to every layer underneath it!

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Mar 25, 2012

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So, whats missing in the viewports is the cyan text where it says "Klassisk sal"and some other text surrounding it and the cyan box with the text "Mko 12.002". The highlighted layers in the layer properties window are the associated with these items

Viewport.jpg

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All of the reference entities, believe it or not, are on layer "0".  There are also some consistent layers, that you can see in the code below.  However, a user may create or even remove any layer in the reference drawing.  Therefore in my current drawing, I may have layers that are not frozen in the xref.

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[Code] ........

I guess what I'm looking for is to freeze all layers that begin with "7102-002-950 UC10-03|".

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