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I was noticing that the Toolbar Lock is also outside of the configure menu. It sure would be nice to ADD a "lock x-refs" on the cntrl-rt click function? In lieu of (or addition to) isolating and layer locking?

Chris wrote:I was noticing that the Toolbar Lock is also outside of the configure menu.

I think it's in the View menu so it's near the main View\Toolbars dialog launcher.

Not sure if this is a default setting or not, or if it's something you might want to set, but if you open C:\Datacad XX\Support Files\Messages and Labels\DCADWIN.mnu in Notepad, and search for Lock Toolbars you can add a quick key to it in between the ||.

I have mine set to
Lock Toolbars|Ctrl+L|

You can look at some of the other examples within the dcadwin.mnu file for ideas on available shortcut options or other commands you may want to add a quick key combo for.

Thanks Josh, I was aware of the Lock Toolbars, this would be a LOCK X-REF command so you cannot accidentally delete them

I'll suggest an additional XRef locking option - I like to lock them in order to not accidentally erase them. But I would like to be able to Refresh them, without unlocking the layer - or closing and reopening the file.

I thought that was what lock layer was for. So you didn't accidentally erase, move or change something you didn't want to. Whether that was a line, text, dimension or xref.

Layer lock does keep you from erasing the XRef. But it also stops you from Refreshing the XRef. To do that, you either have to temporarily unlock the layer, or close and reopen it.

Yes and if you had the xref locked locked somehow I would assume that you would temporarily unlock it to make a change as well then lock it back.