I have an ongoing problem with nested xref's in some files. In my elevation file, I xref the ground floor base plan which contains an xref of the site with selected layers on. If I xref the ground floor into the site creating a circular xref and turn off the ground floor there, then the site will not show up in the elevations. I have to open the site file and delete the ground floor reference in order to get it to show in the elevations. So I have to only use some of these references temporarily, which is a pain when I have to reinsert them and re-register them to check something.
I don't know the particulars but I have had problems with nested xref's and x-clips. I don't know if it was solved with the "Ignore Z" setting or not. I have tried avoiding the issue more often than not lately.
Wish I could be more specific and helpful. You know how it is once you figure something doesn't work right and begin taking steps to avoid it, you can't always remember the particulars.
Anyone else experience this phenom recently and knows the story behind it??
AJ Blasio (aka Tony)
DataCAD 18 (DataCAD User since v5) Windows 10 Intel CORE i5 8GB Ram
The ignore z feature has not been entirely reliable on my system. If you have not already tried this, check the z height of the x-ref in the drawing in which it is originally referenced and set your clip cube settings manually to well above and below this in the drawing in which it is a nested and clipped x-ref.
Here is something crazy. I had the nested xref problem (nested xrefs not showing up), and copied the nested xref into the file, with the purpose of bypassing the nested xref problem. Now the original nested xrefs that weren't showing up, are now showing up. So, I just moved the newly copied xrefs to a trash layer so they will still remain in the file, and serve their purpose by somehow overwriting the nested xref problem.
Not an explanation, but sort of a solution nonetheless.
