cannot unlock xreffed layer

[Anonymous]

Hello all,

I need to rotate an xrefed dwg drawing. I tried to unlock the xref layers but am unable to do so for some of them, of which I find no pattern that explain such obstacle.

the layer is already unlock in the original dwg file.

Thanks
Joaquim

[Thomas Holm]

Turn off Suspend Groups. The Rotate command will only work if the whole XREF is selected.

[Anonymous]

Doesn't work, Thomas.

It unlocks all but one layer which, like I said, does not seem to fall under a specific pattern.

Could it be that AC makes dwg xrefs "unrotateable"?

[Thomas Holm]

Weird. I've no idea why this happens, I've never had this problem. Might be something in the DWG that Archicad has problems handling.

However, a workaround might be to instead Merge the dwg into an empty (delete all layers before) Archicad .pln file, and then Hotlink that into your project. This should give you full control.

[Anonymous]

I see. But that way I cannot unload it the same way like an xref, can I? This is because the xref info is a bit heavy, and I'd like to unload it while I work on the other stuff.

[Anonymous]

jagostinho wrote:
I see. But that way I cannot unload it the same way like an xref, can I? This is because the xref info is a bit heavy, and I'd like to unload it while I work on the other stuff.

You can't unload an hotlink like xref But a hotlink is attached to a layer so you can turn it on / off by turning the layer on / off.

[Laszlo Nagy]

You would be better off placing the DWG file in your Project as a Drawing with the Drawing Tool. No problem with its layers and you can easily rotate it.