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Stray Points in XRef

PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 2:53 pm
by Neil Blanchard
I have a question. I did something unusual - I started a new drawing from scratch, using a default drawing that is our office "standard". Usually, we start with a DWG we inherited from a previous project, or a CAD drawing that was "traced" from a scanned blueprint, or something like that.

I drew the floor plan, and then started a section drawing, and XRef'd the floor plan into it. And I see 4 little + that are included in the extents:

XRef Issue - 01.png


What are those from, and how can I make them go away?

Re: Stray Points in XRef

PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 3:07 pm
by joshhuggins
Can you identify what they are in the main file? Symbol insertion points maybe? I've had DWG block/symbols that have had their insertion point not ignored like our symbol insertion points for extents before. End up having to explode, and if needed as symbols still, create a new symbol and then replace the other symbols with the new symbol.

Re: Stray Points in XRef

PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 3:18 pm
by Neil Blanchard
That's just it - they do not appear in the source file. I used 7 plumbing symbols.

Ah - I found the cause: the default section file had 4 XRef's in it, that were orphaned. Delete those and everything's good.

Re: Stray Points in XRef

PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 10:57 pm
by Mark Bell
They could be the origin points of hatch patterns. Try turning Hatch Origin (S1) off in the Display menu and see if they go.