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The display of Xref layers is alterable as you say, the only time we need to view the Xref layers can be done by simply switching to that file, freezing thawing layers can be done far more easily with LAYFRZ than hunting through the Layer list anyway.Īll it would take is for Autodesk to put those to two things into a Config Option or System Variable, so it's set persistently for all drawings.
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this only takes a few seconds each time but it's tedious, annoying and it shouldn't need to be that way. Thus our standard office approach has long been, for every drawing we open - open the Layers dialog, select 'Xref' from the filter tree, check the Invert Filters box and close the dialog again. while we work with only ~50 layers (x the number of our own Xrefs), once you add a half-dozen consultants' drawings, you can easily top 1,000 Layers in one file - that doesn't help anyone. This is a greater problem if you use a lot of Xrefs, particularly consultants drawings - many of our surveyors and engineers provide us drawings which we must Xref with several hundred layers in each.
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However if you take a grown-up look at the Layer list in the Properties Palette, you would notice that it displays both layers in the current drawing as well as any Xref layers, which is entirely redundant - there is no way to turn layers on/off or freeze/thaw layers within the Properties palette, (that is only possible from the Ribbon or the Command Line) Īlso, if you select a drawing element, you cannot change it to an Xref layer, obviously, and selecting an Xref will not allow you to see which layer an Xref element is on, only the insertion layer - therefore displaying the list of Xref layers there serves no purpose to anyone, at anytime, but makes the Layer list needlessly long. But the display of xref layers IS alterable in the current drawing.the display of Xref layers is alterable as you say,