I have a base drawing.
I XREF it into a new drawing where I add annotative objects (text, dimensions, leaders).
I XREF the annotated version into a new drawing to be combined with other xrefd drawings for plotting.
When I return to the drawing of its annotated version and make modification to the annotation objects and save, I am prompted to "Reload Updated Xrefs" on the "combined xref drawings file".
Upon "reloading", the base drawing disappears and XREF dialog box says that the file cannot be found. (refer to Pic1)
I have relocated the path and even tried updating the path manually. It doesn't matter what I enter, it simply will not locate the file.
SO...
To make things more interesting, I tried copy/pasting(made a duplicate) the combined xref drawings file.
I opened the copy, and voila, for some reason all my xref'd drawings appear.
This is not an ideal work around.
I'm still stuck with some issue that may be related, where one of my layouts (each layout is a different plotter size w/ accompanied viewports at different scales) does not correctly scale the annotative text, where as all my other layouts, and their viewports at different scales, display the correct scale of the annotative objects. (refer to Pic 2 & 3)
I'm not sure what to do.
PIC 1
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PIC2 CORRECT ANNOTATIVE OBJECT SCALE INSIDE VIEWPORT FOR A LAYOUT
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PIC 3 WRONG ANNOTATIVE OBJECT SCALE INSIDE VIEWPORT FOR A LAYOUT
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