Assembly drawing XREF paths
Most of the things I design are very simple. Because of this, I only rarely make assembly drawings. On the occasions I have, I usually copy and paste the parts from other drawings, and fit them together with ESNAPS. If I want to rotate or move the assembly, I group them with the BLOCK command.
Last week however, I needed an assembly drawing of a more complex design. I decided to use the assembly tools in BricsCAD. I placed the *.dwg's for all the parts I wanted , in a subfolder "\Parts". I then used BMINSERT to build my assembly. This caused XREFS to be generated. I never liked XREFS, because the absolute paths get broken if you move the project folder to another computer or network drive.
In fact, this is what I encountered when I moved my new project folder. So I opened up the drawing explorer and changed the paths for the XREFS from an absolute to a relative reference.. For instance:
c:\users\jimc\desktop\project\Parts\hinge.dwg
became
.\parts\hinge.dwg
Now I could move my project folder anywhere I liked, and the assembly was still viewable.
However, I noticed a problem. While the paths were still absolute, I could edit any of the parts, and the change would be reflected in the assembly as soon as I ran the command BMUPDATE. However, after I entered the relative path, BMUPDATE no longer did anything.
Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong and how to fix it?
Last week however, I needed an assembly drawing of a more complex design. I decided to use the assembly tools in BricsCAD. I placed the *.dwg's for all the parts I wanted , in a subfolder "\Parts". I then used BMINSERT to build my assembly. This caused XREFS to be generated. I never liked XREFS, because the absolute paths get broken if you move the project folder to another computer or network drive.
In fact, this is what I encountered when I moved my new project folder. So I opened up the drawing explorer and changed the paths for the XREFS from an absolute to a relative reference.. For instance:
c:\users\jimc\desktop\project\Parts\hinge.dwg
became
.\parts\hinge.dwg
Now I could move my project folder anywhere I liked, and the assembly was still viewable.
However, I noticed a problem. While the paths were still absolute, I could edit any of the parts, and the change would be reflected in the assembly as soon as I ran the command BMUPDATE. However, after I entered the relative path, BMUPDATE no longer did anything.
Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong and how to fix it?
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