July 10, 2019
Workaround: Civil 3D XREF Structures Do Not Resize
My friend and customer, Ben Cartmell from Koers & Associates in Parksville, has brought to my attention a method, of which you may not be aware, for working around a limitation within Civil 3D.
The limitation is when a drawing containing Civil 3D structures is XREF’d. The image below shows two viewports in paper space with pipes and structures that have been XREF’d in model space. The structures are annotative and they should be the same size within the viewports, but they are not.
There is an easy workaround for this problem. The file being XREF’d in the example above was saved in model space.
- Open the file.
- Switch to paper space.
- Save.
Reload the XREF and those structures now appear the same size in paper space.
Feel free to experiment by downloading these two drawing files.