Unresolved Xrefs

Jeff Porter

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Dec 20, 1998, 3:00:00 AM12/20/98

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Check to make sure the path is correct.
>
> I have Xefs that are unresolved, and I can't seem to be able to resolve
> them. The drawings have been converted from an older version to R14 and
> for some of them the xrefs work and others don't. I can open the xref
> drawings with no difficulty and I can't see where the problem is does
> anyone have any ideas?
>
> Julian

adcs

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Dec 21, 1998, 3:00:00 AM12/21/98

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adcs

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Dec 21, 1998, 3:00:00 AM12/21/98

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Jeff Porter wrote:

> Check to make sure the path is correct.
> >

the paths are correct. I think there could be problrm with the xref files
themselves as I cant x reference them, although I can open them with no
problem at all.

Julian

Tom Semple

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Dec 21, 1998, 3:00:00 AM12/21/98

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When you attempt to xref them and it fails, do you get any error messages in
the command window? For example, if you attempt to xref a drawing with a
long block name, you will get a "error: concatenating the dependent layer
name..would exceed 31 characters" message.

adcs wrote in message <367DBDB7...@matra.com.au>...

Jay Tolbert

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Dec 21, 1998, 3:00:00 AM12/21/98

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adcs wrote:
>
> This is the problem I encounter when tring to insert an Xref or try to change
> its location
> Reload Xref XE-L5F: D:\osman\Julian\E\Xe-l5f.dwg
> Regenerating drawing.
> *Invalid*
>
I have gotten the *Invalid* message when the Xref drawing had problems
as you suspected. I have found most of my problem drawings were
originally imported into AutoCAD before R14 and snuck some invalid items
past AutoCAD. Try wblocking out the Xref drawing and do an AUDIT on the
new drawing it to see if that corrects the problem.

Jay Tolbert
Dickerson Engineering, Inc.

Kyle Vargas

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Dec 21, 1998, 3:00:00 AM12/21/98

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I recently ran into this same xref problem. The only way I found to fix the
*Invalid* drawing was to create a dxf file of the drawing. Then bring it
back into a new drawing file with dxfin and save over the existing xref
drawing. Audit, Recover and WBlock did not do anything to correct the
problem.

Kyle Vargas

adcs

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Dec 22, 1998, 3:00:00 AM12/22/98

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This is the problem I encounter when tring to insert an Xref or try to change
its location
Reload Xref XE-L5F: D:\osman\Julian\E\Xe-l5f.dwg
Regenerating drawing.
*Invalid*

Command: xref

Attach Xref XE-L5F: D:\osman\Julian\E\Xe-l5f.dwg
Regenerating drawing.
*Invalid*

I also got this problem from another drawing
Command:
AutoCAD menu utilities loaded.
This is another problem I got with Xref
Command: _open
Converting old drawing.

Resolve Xref XL6CPDM: XL6CPDM.DWG

Warning: Invalid block name "" found.
File XL6CPDM.DWG needs recovery.

AutoCAD bonus utilities loaded.
Regenerating drawing.

adcs

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Dec 22, 1998, 3:00:00 AM12/22/98

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Jay Tolbert wrote:

> adcs wrote:
> >
> > This is the problem I encounter when tring to insert an Xref or try to change
> > its location
> > Reload Xref XE-L5F: D:\osman\Julian\E\Xe-l5f.dwg
> > Regenerating drawing.
> > *Invalid*
> >

> I have gotten the *Invalid* message when the Xref drawing had problems
> as you suspected. I have found most of my problem drawings were
> originally imported into AutoCAD before R14 and snuck some invalid items
> past AutoCAD. Try wblocking out the Xref drawing and do an AUDIT on the
> new drawing it to see if that corrects the problem.
>
> Jay Tolbert
> Dickerson Engineering, Inc.

This appears to be the proble , yet audit finds no errors

adcs

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Dec 23, 1998, 3:00:00 AM12/23/98

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This is definately the same problem I found. Converting to dxf and back to dwg
managed to fix most of he drawings with Xref problems although a few cause this
error when converting back to dwg:

Command: dxfin
Error in BLOCK_RECORD Table
Invalid symbol table record name: on line 5338.
Invalid or incomplete DXF input -- drawing discarded.
Press ENTER to continue: *Cancel*

There is what seems to be a problem with the name of a blck, or maybe te lack
of a name, does this error look familiar to anyone?

Julian

Jay Tolbert

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Dec 23, 1998, 3:00:00 AM12/23/98

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adcs wrote:
>
> This is definately the same problem I found. Converting to dxf and back to dwg
> managed to fix most of he drawings with Xref problems although a few cause this
> error when converting back to dwg:
>
> Command: dxfin
> Error in BLOCK_RECORD Table
> Invalid symbol table record name: on line 5338.
> Invalid or incomplete DXF input -- drawing discarded.
> Press ENTER to continue: *Cancel*
>
> There is what seems to be a problem with the name of a blck, or maybe te lack
> of a name, does this error look familiar to anyone?
>
> Julian

Make sure the block name does not end in a space or have invalid
characters in the name. I once had a group of drawings where all of the
block names had an extra space at the end of the name. R14 would open
the drawing but you couldn't Xref it into another drawing and it gave me
errors when I tried to DXFIN the file. In order to correct the error I
had to rename all of the block records, block definitions, and the
inserts in the DXF file.