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Copy Layer Prop of X-REF to another drawing

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Hello,
Let me explain what I am looking to do. I have Drawing1.dwg with an attached X-REF called REF1.dwg. I also have Drawing2.dwg with the same attached X-REF called REF1.dwg. In Drawing1, I see its associated layers plus the external reference layers for REF1. I freeze the layers I do not want to see from REF1 reference. When I open Drawing2, I would like to globally match the layer properties I had set for Drawing1 regarding the external reference. At this point, I cannot figure out how to do this.

I want to point out that I do not want to set the specific layers in REF1 so it shows up in both documents as I want a completely different set of layers frozen for Drawings3,4,5. Then another set for Drawings 6,7,8. So say I adjust Drawing3 external ref properties... I want clone them to 4 and 5. At any given time, I'm talking about 30 - 70 layers so I'm looking for a quicker way to match these dwgs with the appropriate layers.

Match Properties feature does not work. I didn't think it would but I tried anyway. I tried clicking on the REF1 in Drawing1 and then click Match Properties. When I switched to the other drawing and click on the reference drawing, nothing changed.

I have also tried using the Layout Translator in 2005. That only displays the layers within the actual drawing, not external references.

I would appreciate any insight you could give me on this matter. Thank you in advance.
 
I have not seen a layer match properties lisp routine...there may b one out there though..i just never seen it...check out:
see if there are any there...
there is a layer import/export function in cad...try that...
another option is..(at the beginning of the project) start a new drawing, get the layers set how u want them, then "saveas" to a differ file name....keep "saving as" as much as u want for differ file names...change the layers accordingly at the beginning of each series....
hope this helps

CadMaster
 
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