REFEDIT leaves behind bogus layers etc
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Casey Roberts
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Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 9:33 pm    Post subject: REFEDIT leaves behind bogus layers etc Reply with quote

When I refedit a particular drawing (xref) I'm left with layers, text styles
etc that I don't need. These elements are placed in my current working
drawing. Anybody know why? or how to prevent this?

Purge gets rid of them, but why do they show up in the first place?

Here's what I see at the command line:
Command: _refclose
The following symbols will be permanently bound to the current drawing:
Layers: $2$S-WOOD-JOIST
Linetypes: $2$PHANTOM
Text Styles: $2$RomanD, $2$Simplex
Blocks: $2$joistick

If I refedit again, there are more layers, linetypes etc added... it just
changes the number between the '$' incrementally.

Thanks,

Casey

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wookie
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Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 7:37 am    Post subject: Re: REFEDIT leaves behind bogus layers etc Reply with quote

I get the same thing, sometimes, in some drawings.
I haven't worked out a pattern yet.
But it seems to happen on xrefs, as opposed to blocks. And the layer is usually one that I have not edited.
Are you working in 2d or 3d? I only edit xrefs in 3d.

I think the layers are tempoary ones that Acad creates to facilitate the reference editing, and it should delete them at the refclose command. Can anyone confirm this?
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Jon Kirkham
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Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 5:02 pm    Post subject: Re: REFEDIT leaves behind bogus layers etc Reply with quote

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I think the layers are tempoary ones that Acad creates to facilitate the
reference editing, and it should delete them at the refclose command. Can

anyone confirm this?

Can't say offhand if it deletes them after closing. IF it doesn't they
definitely purge out. We use refedit extensively, and after purging, the
only layers that remain are those that are used within the drawing, and all
match our layer system. Never seen a $ layer.

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Casey Roberts
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Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 5:46 pm    Post subject: Re: REFEDIT leaves behind bogus layers etc Reply with quote

I only work in 2D so it doesn't look like that's got anything to do with it.

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I get the same thing, sometimes, in some drawings.
I haven't worked out a pattern yet.
But it seems to happen on xrefs, as opposed to blocks. And the layer is
usually one that I have not edited.
Are you working in 2d or 3d? I only edit xrefs in 3d.

I think the layers are tempoary ones that Acad creates to facilitate the
reference editing, and it should delete them at the refclose command. Can

anyone confirm this?
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madcadd
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Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 9:56 pm    Post subject: Re: REFEDIT leaves behind bogus layers etc Reply with quote

Hi Casey,

You've helped me in the past and I wish I could help you more now, ......but......I see the same thing, but ONLY when refeditting an xref, not a block within the dwg.

I agree with wookie;

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I think the layers are tempoary ones that Acad creates to facilitate the reference editing, and it should delete them at the refclose command. Can anyone confirm this?

Yes it should delete them at the refclose command, but does not (or so it would seem) unless we are all missing one piece of the command that controls this.

I would have spent more time on this if indeed it was something that affected me more, but I don't like refeditting an xref because of another reason and that is because you lose your thumbnail preview until you go back into the original of the xref and save it again. Soooooooooo, what's the use. Consequently, I only xref blocks within my current dwg.
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