Support for AutoCAD Xrefs

Feature Overview

The ability for the PowerDWG Translator to automatically bind AutoCAD Xrefs when translating a file

Feature Description:

Currently, the PowerDWG Translator External provides a warning dialog if the DWG file being translated contains Xref's. While this is a helpful warning, advising us that the translation will be incomplete, it requires translating each referenced drawing separately. The resulting individual files have to manually reassembled which can be difficult, or in some cases impossible due to a lack of common reference points in each file.

The only current work around is to have the original AutoCAD drawing author use the Bind Xref to make a single file for translation. In some cases, particularly on large scale projects with multiple consultants, this level of coordination is difficult as it requires additional steps by the coordinating consultant.

The fact PowerCADD knows which Xref drawing is missing is a big steps and tells us it knows the content exists... now the next logical step is to just include in the translation. A simple thing to say and we're sure quite a difficult thing to achieve but one that would be a significant step in cross platform coordination on large and small projects.

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