We've always been a firm that maybe uses an xref here or there.
We usually xref our survey base file into our land development drawing and that's it.
We recently had an employee that was a huge advocate for xref's and he wanted to xref everything.
I have always noticed that the more xref's in a drawing, the worse that drawing runs.
We have some drawings that you cannot save unless you unload the existing conditions plan before saving. Otherwise, the drawing just loads forever and maybe crashes.
Our existing conditions base plans are purged, audited, and in some cases only have lines and text.
This is why we xref as little as possible.
Has anyone else ever had a problem like this??