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This one comes from Steve Preble here at Signature Architects:

For a large floor plan, we have 4 areas clipped and saved as GTV's for a larger scale plan detail. Once we set up the new plan areas, we then needed to set up a GTV for the demolition plan and for the RCP demo, as well. In order to not have to recreate the same clip cube, what you do is open the GTV for the overall demolition plan, and then open the GTV for the plan detail for one of the areas.

Then hit Control-Z.

This keeps the clip cube for the larger scale view but reverts to the layers you need for the demolition plan. Pretty slick!

Save a new GTV, and name it appropriately. Repeat for the other areas you need for all the detail plans.

Recently I used a clip-cube to self-xref a portion of a floor plan for an enlarged detail and couldn't 'snap' to lines in the xref for dimensions or notes. I would up creating a special layer for those detail-dimensions that was visible in the xref. I don't use self-xrefs this way often but I thought I had been able to 'snap' dimensions before.

Since I typically work in one large DC v13 file, I find using xrefs seems to degrade the performance noticeably if there's more than two or three self-xrefs in the drawing-file.

Yes, that is a pretty slick way to duplicate the CC layout. Should save me some time in the future. I have previously inserted snap points at the corners of the CC's (DCAD will middle mouse button snap to the corners of a CC) and then copied those snap points onto other layers so that my plan, ceiling, demo, and other plan drawings would all have the same CC boundaries. This CTRL Z cheap trick will bypass that step.

Datacad vers. 13

"dcadwin.ini" XREFS [ Dynamic snapping = True ]
Still does not want to 'snap' to anything that is integral part of the x-ref itself. Could there be another set-up parameter or property preventing it from snapping?

I have all 6 xrefs in the file inserted on the same dedicated "xref" layer. Should I have each on it's own dedicated layer?

Hi Ted,

The syntax looks off if that is how it actually is in your ini file. Can you copy and paste your dcadwin.ini settings directly here and we can take a closer look?