extend/trim with x-ref lines...

[sundemon]

greetings,

I was wonderiing if anyone has any insight into this.

Normally, when I place an x-ref in a drawing, I am able to use lines in the xref as extending or cutting edges for extend or trim operations for non xref lines in the "host" drawing. They behave like a block; for trimming, e.g., I start the command, elect a line in the xref as a cutting edge, only that line is highlighted as opposed to the whloe xref, and I am able to trim non-xref lines.

Recently, I created a drawing that won't let the xrefs act as a cutting or extending edge. I was wondering if it's a system variable I didn't know about, but the trait carries from one machine to another with the drawing.

As far as I can tell, toggling the xref-related fields in the "options" section don't seem to have an effect on this.

Any ideas?

thanks in advance,
sundemon

 

[TCARPENTER]

Hmm...

Try checking your EDGEMODE variables and PROJMODE variables and see if either one or both of those do the trick.

HTH
Todd

 

[sundemon]

todd,
thanks for responding.
I tried those variables, but with no effect.
I suspect this issue has something to do with the xref related controls in the ACAD "options" menu.
Usually, when we create xrefs at work they can trim or extend lines like blocks, so the issue never came up.
This problem seemed to originate when I was working at home; I was working and my ACAD program starting acting weirdly on it's own. Suddenly the program wouldn't recognise any commands having to do with "properties" and those commands started throwing errors, and I had to eventually reinstall. During that session, but before my software wnet buggy, I created the first drawing with the non-trimming xrefs. I brought the drawings to work and continued on the project, copy-pasting elevations, etc. and the issue seemed to come along with the xrefs onto my machine at work, but only for those drawings. If I open an another drawing, the xrefs trim/extend as per usual, so I guess the issue is local to the drawings, and not a system variable, which I believe persist across different drawing. So maybe the whole thing is an anomoly that came out of the funky software behavior.

Anyway, thanks for the tip, as it lead me to read about the PROJMODE and EDGEMODE system variables, and I wasn't really up on them to start with.

I guess the issue with the xrefs will remain a mystery.

Rob

 

[TCARPENTER]

Just a thought, your xref drawings may be corrupt. You may try recovering each one to see if your problems disappear.

HTH
Todd