Every time I attach an XREF file, the xref drawing is shaded and is very difficult to see. Having looked through a good deal of the COMMANDS & properties trying to make Xref's more visible, without binding them into my original drawing.
View 5 RepliesAny way to control the visibility of any XRef in a drawing using Excel or Text file. For instance, I have 50 Xref placed in there positions and I want AutoCAD to select what should be visible by reading an external file--Excel or Text file.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a tin volume surface comprised of proposed and existing models for a large earthwork site. I would like a detailed cut fill diagram for presentation to project owner. The site involves cuts and fills up to 30' depths. I would like to be able to represent not only cuts and fills, but give a visual representation of the depth of cuts/fills (ie darker blues and reds in the deeper areas, lighter in the shallow areas). Is there a simple way to do this without setting up 100 different colors of blues and reds in the volume surface properties analysis tab? I have seen contractor software that performs this function rather easily.
View 9 Replies View Relatedis there a way to turn off different levels of shading in the subassemblies that show up? when i orbit my road, i cant clearly see what is going on, and would like to turn off some shading. see image, i want to turn off where the arrows are pointing.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a lack of expierence in using visibility checks. I created road profile , now i would like to check the visibility of it. Cuz my profile have hills , and the car driver must see other objects in the road . His sight in front should be 400 meters , eyes height 1 meter and the target in 400 distance should be seen by 1 meter tall.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI turned the visibility of Elevation & Offset label off. How do I get it back. Not all just one spot.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm doing a road project. i've got profile grades of existing left and right ditches. in some sections we're redoing the ditches so i've got proposed left and right ditch profiles. what i want to show is where i've got proposed ditch grades, i don't want to show existing ditch grades.
The new ditches happen intermittently on the road so i would need to be able to turn off the existing ditches at various places. is this possible without exploding my existing ditch grades?
I'm just looking for some basic information about geo-markers and am having a hard time finding anything. What exactly is the geo-marker, and what is it used for? Is it important to have referenced? I know how to set the coordinates and to turn the visibility off. I'm just wanting info about what the geo-marker is, and it's uses.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am tring to change the label visibility of a point label style ,not sure it can be done, I search around for a bit I can seem to find anything useful...
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have created an alignment, and have the stationing labels on a different layer than the actual alignment linework. I have frozen the layer with the alignment on it in a viewport, but not the layer with the labels. However, when I regen, the labels disappear. I need to have the labels visible, and the linework off.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI've read or seen a video on this before, but don't recall fix. As you can see in the attached image that half of my station label is missing, is there a fix for this. I think I recall reading you need to include a data band strictly for positioning of profile view.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am trying to attach pdfs to my drawing. I am receiving the following message "acdwfmarkupcore.arx cannot find a procedure that it needs." I am also receiving a message that says the pdf (file) is corrupt. I have opened the file and it appears fine. I have even tried re-saving the original document under a different name.
View 5 Replies View Relatedi type in xr and the box shows up but when i go to attach a dwg or image the box usually shows up so i can browse through and find the dwg i want to xref but the box doesn't show up all it says at the bottom in the command line is ATTACH
If i use the command classicxref then everything is fine i can attach anything i want. i checked the filedia and it is set to (1)
I am xrefing a DGN file into my DWG file in Civil 3d 2012. When I go into Layer Manager I cannot see any of the DGN's Levele/Layers? Tell me this isn't so? Am I missing something here, how is one suppose to control Layers in the DGN when it is XREF'd into a DWG?
View 4 Replies View RelatedWhen i change a linetype in an xref file and then reload the file, The linetype does not change in the file i am referencing the drawing in, leaving me to manually change the linetypes within the drawing.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am having problems bringing in an xref dwg in a viewport. The scale for my stationing labels are huge and I cant remember how to fix it.
View 8 Replies View RelatedDrawing contains Xrefs which are either unloaded or unresolved and do not show up in the base drawing.
I am unable to reload but can detach some of them.
When I try to Xref a new file it does not function. Makes no differerence whether its an attachment or an overlay.
Often, screen are full of information..surface, alignments, corridors, widenings.I'd like a tool to have a fast way to view/hide information related to my alignments and corridors. In example.
View 9 Replies View RelatedCan I somehow xref a surface into a drawing and use it to create profiles, sections, gradings etc?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have an xref...I can see the labels in model space but when I go to paperspace, I can not longer see them.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am getting a lot of grief xrefing a C3D file into an AutoCAD drawing. A bit of background...
Fairly large development project with 270 new familiy houses. The sanitary sewer (SS) network was created using AutoCAD only. All layout drawings and xrefs were created using AutoCAD using AutoCAD templates. Then, here I am, putting the entire SS network in C3D, with its fancy labels and relevant long sections. Now I am supposed to display this C3D network in all the layout plans and get rid of the old 2D SS xref. Well, the blody thing doesn't work! If I try to xref the original C3D file, it will only display the labels. All pipes and structures and long section do not display. Yes, I checked all layers are turned on.
I tried using data shortcuts instead, bringing first the relevant part liist and styles. No luck. Again neither a single pipe nor structure is diplayed, although the prospector in the toolspace shows the network is referenced in the drawing. I am not sure if this matters, but the C3D source drawing contains a second pipe network referenced using data shortcuts which, by the way, doesn't display either when xrefing. I tried xrefing the C3D file using my C3D template and it works fine. So I guess that, somehow, the AutoCAD template used to creat the drawings is preventing some C3D objects to be displayed when xrefed.
I know I could recreate all our layout plans using my C3D template. Unfortunately, that would be a long process since we have quite a few and they're all heavily xrefed, with many layer properties overriden.
C3D 2011V2. Windows XP 64b
I'm writing a .NET app to get corridor feature line information from an XREF'd dwg file to use in the active document. I'm having quite a bit of trouble reading the civil objects from the XREF.
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This works, but still doesn't work for civil objects. Take a look at the snippet below.
if (xdb != null) { // Start a transaction in our loaded database // to get at the layer name Transaction tr2 = xdb.TransactionManager.StartTransaction(); using (tr2) { // Open the layer table LayerTable lt2 = (LayerTable)tr2.GetObject( xdb.LayerTableId, OpenMode.ForRead );
In order to get a Corridor ID collection I need a reference to a CivilDocument object. So how do I get a CivilDocument object when it isn't the active document? Is there any way to get it from a Document or Database object?
I created a pipe network in civil3D and now I want to insert it as an xref in an autocad file. The problem is that when I do so, I lose some properties, such as the hatches in the directional arrows of the pipes and the background mask property of the structure labels.
View 2 Replies View Related I'm trying to get a handle on what should and should not be expected to work as far as labeling XREF'd entities goes. I'm using 2011.
I have recently had bearing notes associated with an XREF'd line disappear, and I can't pinpoint the cause.
I had edited a couple of lines in said XREF'd drawing, but NOT the one that was associated with the C3D notes. There are two C3D drawings that XREF this drawing and that have line labels applied to the same, unchanged, line. Yet, all of those labels were gone (in both drawings) when I opened them this morning.
So, should labeling an XREF'd entity work? Are labels predictably lost when a labeled line undergoes a known set of modifications (Sinc relayed his experiences here: [URL] .....
What if the XREF'd drawing is simply saved, with no changes made to a labeled line? Should that be okay?
If labeling XREF's is known to be unpredictable, it sort of puts us back to manual text labels and manual curve tables. Is that really what people are having to do?
I am having a issue when I open a drawing with a profile or a surface xreferenced into it, the profile drawing or the surface drawing needs to be reloaded every time in order for it to appear. This becomes very cumbersome when we try to publish a set and have numerous plan and profile sheets and then the profile doesn’t appear. We have six identical machines in our office with Civil 3D 2013 on them and out of the six two of them have this happen on a regular basis. If I were to go over to the other four machines, there are no issues when we open the drawing or publishing. Is there a setting in AutoCAD that we are overlooking?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have x'ref a dwg. file in my current drawing. And when i print preview with the correct ctb style... The x'ref lines are not showing up?
I am having troubles showing the green, cyan and yellow color. when i print preview it doesnt show nothing. The true color is on RGB.
I am trying to use georectified cad file as a xref. The problem I am having is that the file doesn't place in the correct place. My file that I am working in is the same coordinate system. Is there a better way to do this? I've also tried copying and pasting, that doesn't work either.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI xrefed my surface to my sheet file and everything except the contours show, I evan tried a data shortcut to no avail. I checked vp layers and thawed /on all layers but no contours..
View 9 Replies View RelatedWhen i am making e-transmittal i am getting the message warning Xref broken reference , what are the causes for this.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am looking for a way to make it so that I cannot select an xref. I want it to sit neatly in the background and leave me alone when I'm trying to select things in the current drawing.
I am trying to design roadways on a steep hillside and the contours are very close together such that whe I zoom out to the view the whole project, there is no space on the screen where there aren't several contours within my pickbox. I need the contours on so that I can layout around the topography, but in order to select the centerline of my road without clicking on the contours, I have to zoom in really tight and then select and zoom way out again to manipulate the other lines. It would really speed things up if the xref contours could not be selected at all.
I am currently trying to xref a Civil 3d files into auto cad 2d. So far on the model space it works fine however when i try to put it into paper space the labels on the profiles just seems to go crazy. See the attached picture. (First picture where the label are not displaying correctly in paper space and second drawing in model space of the same drawing which shows the labels correctly).
I believe its the annotation that civil 3d uses to generate these text labels but i am unaware of how this can be solved.