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#66330 by Neil Blanchard
Thu Apr 30, 2015 3:51 pm
Hi,

A little background so you get a clearer picture: on a hotel guest room renovation project, we have 21 floor plans, and there are 20 room types, and many of those also have a mirrored version. We need to draw construction documents for each room plan, and the building floor plans are "built" with XRef's of each room type.

We have existing floor plans, and those get XRef'd into the new floor plans - and the XRef is highlighted to show everything as red dashed lines. When you erase a wall to demo it, the XRef shows up to show what gets demolished. This is one level of XRef nesting.

To further streamline the drafting, the mirrored plans are XRef'ing the "regular plan" and then have the text and dims and furniture - or any other thing that won't work correctly mirrored will get drawn on the XRef. This nests the regular room plan in the mirrored room plan, and then that gets used in the building floor plans.

The regular rooms on the building plan two levels of nesting. The mirrored rooms have three levels.

Now, the issue: in the mirrored room plans, the X-Clip boundary of the demo XRef is showing up in it's original position; though the demo XRef is showing up the way it should.

This is a relatively minor issue, because it doesn't affect the plot. But, it is an issue, that maybe can be fixed?
#66331 by David A. Giesselman
Thu Apr 30, 2015 4:23 pm
Neil:

Only if we can get a relatively simple drawing that illustrates the problem. A drawing as complex as you are describing is going to make it difficult for me to correct the problem you are describing. A drawing with "N" number of XRefs (as "N" approaches infinity) and Nesting enabled will only test the patience of small-brained programmers (like myself) to the point of disinterest in resolving the issue.

Sincerely and with respect,
Dave
#66338 by David A. Giesselman
Fri May 01, 2015 2:30 pm
Thanks for the file Neil, I've corrected the issue for the next update.

Regards,
Dave
#66340 by joshhuggins
Fri May 01, 2015 2:34 pm
You da man!
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#66341 by MtnArch
Fri May 01, 2015 10:58 pm
I do **NOT** want to know how you (Josh) found THAT image!

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