Originally Posted by
evylrat918811
Thanks for the congtrats! Usually with AutoCAD issues, I get all my answers from this forum and never have to ask. But when it comes to XREFs, perhaps we're just using them wrong! I like to keep all information on a drawing (for a building, it would be steel, masonry, foundations, etc) and have a drawing showing plans at each level, so a viewport showing Foundations, one showing the masonry, another showing steelwork setting out. Seems odd that if you bind a drawing, there's no UNbind option. I'm surprised that I seem to be part of a tiny percentage asking this question.
After running the Blocktoxref, and choosing NOT to purge the unneeded data (so I can see what's left behind), I am left with an XR_Test$0$Circles layer (from the block) but also have a new XR_Test|Circles from the XREF, so I can't rename the layers because they already exist. If I DO purge the data, those unused layers are deleted from the Layer State Manager. You can export the original layer states to the XR_Test, and reimport them later so they are unchanged.
We usually forget to bind the drawings 95 times out of 100, and since only our PDFs are counted as official documents (they have stamps and signatures on them), losing the DWG because XREFs weren't bound, isn't a huge problem unless there is a design change and we want to go back to a previous design. Just wondering if there's something I'm missing with this feature.