Exploding dwgs changes the layers existing things ar eon

[Anonymous]

Has anyone noticed that when you explode a dwg in a file, in my case on a work sheet, it chnage sthe layers things that are all ready in the file are on. Mine all changed to random layers that came in with the exploded dwg. This is really awful. it is going to take m for ever to fix.

[vfrontiers]

Only VERY loosely related...

I have been trying to export a DWG from a layout and CANNOT get PEN COLORS to translate! This must be a simple thing, but can't do it.

I've changed translator setup 4 or 5 times, changed the drawing from B/W to colors defined by pens, changed pen sets, but the only way I can export with color is to export from the model...

Anyone? Some other checkbox that I'm missing?

[matthewjj]

On a similar but different note I am unable to explode a copy of a DWG file xref'd into my file. Any ideas?

[Link]

matthewjj wrote:
On a similar but different note I am unable to explode a copy of a DWG file xref'd into my file. Any ideas?

Unlock the layers first?

Cheers,
Link.

[Erika Epstein]

I was just about to post a similar anomale. When I exploded l dwg on 3 different computers, (1 mac ppo, 1 mbp wintel, 1 pc) it changed all the text to some kind of Cyrillic language.

All AC11.

[matthewjj]

Link wrote:

matthewjj wrote:
On a similar but different note I am unable to explode a copy of a DWG file xref'd into my file. Any ideas?

Unlock the layers first?

Groups were off and layers were unlocked. At the risk of appearing incredibly stupid, is it not possible to explode an xref'd dwg?

[Link]

Actually I believe the intended workflow is to open the Xref Manager, select the DWG and Bind it.

Cheers,
Link.

[matthewjj]

Link wrote:
Actually I believe the intended workflow is to open the Xref Manager, select the DWG and Bind it.

Cheers,
Link.

I was afraid of that.

My problem is that my contractor is sending me the backgrounds for the building and then I am publishing modules of just the stuff I need for my Site Plans. This works fantastically because when he sends me new backgrounds all I have to do is republish the modules and everything updates.

The problem is that I needed to make a change to the building and send it back to him. So what I wanted to do was simply make a copy of the xref'd dwg, exlode it in a worksheet, make the suggested changes and send it back to him. But I now have more than one instance of that dwg in the same file and one of them is a live hotlink to all the other files in my project. I read that when binding an xref all instances are affected. Since I only wanted to explode the one dwg instance copied to the worksheet for editing I am kind of stuck.

But, after reading your guys' problems, maybe I should be glad it won't explode. I guess I will just open the dwg into a new file so I can edit.

[Link]

If I follow you, you are making changes to his DWGs and sending it back to him, right?

I won't ask the obvious question, but recommend that you insert the DWG using the Drawing tool and then explode it. This won't affect your Xrefs, but will add all the layers to your project. If that's a concern you could explode it in a separate file and hotlink it in as a module.

Cheers,
Link.

[matthewjj]

Link wrote:
If I follow you, you are making changes to his DWGs and sending it back to him, right?

Yes. In this instance anyway. I hadn't thought of placing it as a drawing. It was one of those things where I was trying to get something done quickly and it wouldn't work and then I was like "Dude! I swear I have done this a million times, why won't this work!" So I decided to look it up and figure it out when there was totally another way to do it. Just not the way I thought it should do it.

Seriously though, thanks for the input Link. I still think you're wrong about disagreeing with me on the template file thing. 😉