Locking Xrefs

Is there a way to lock drawings in place in model space. This would be very useful when using Xrefs. I don’t know a way of doing that. You can lock the layers but it is only for the main drawing. There were times that I wish that I had the ability to lock the drawings in place. This would be very useful for background drawings for doing electrical, mechanical, roof and floor framing. Not to mention a lot of other situations. By locking the drawings in place. You can still modify the drawing and it would still update to other drawings.

So this would be different from locking layers.

 

Not really different. XRef your drawings to a layer to lock, e.g.
MyXRefsLayer.

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R. Robert Bell


Is there a way to lock drawings in place in model space. This would be very
useful when using Xrefs. I don’t know a way of doing that. You can lock
the layers but it is only for the main drawing. There were times that I wish
that I had the ability to lock the drawings in place. This would be very
useful for background drawings for doing electrical, mechanical, roof and
floor framing. Not to mention a lot of other situations. By locking the
drawings in place. You can still modify the drawing and it would still
update to other drawings.

So this would be different from locking layers.

 

I really don't want to add an additional layer just for looking the drawing in place.

 

<shrug>

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R. Robert Bell


I really don't want to add an additional layer just for looking the drawing
in place.

 

You do it by locking the layer on which the XREF resides. If you don't want to do it that way, then you're out of luck.