Is it Live or is it MemoreX-Refs?

We use XRefs a lot here where I work and I tend to have to search for my lines that are not in the XRefs so I can work on them. I found a good way to highlight the active lines in a DWG from the XRef'ed lines.

This is using a SHADED view option (my standard while modeling)

 

 

As you can see it is hard to tell what is XRef'ed and what is live and editable in the current DWG.

This is the same model but swapped to SHADES OF GRAY and you can really see the highlighted lines ready to be edited.  Try it out!

 

This only works in PARALLEL view - not PERSPECTIVE view. (View Cube Setting)

 

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Acts 1:8 "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you,

and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria,

and to the end of the earth."

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Acts 1:8 "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you,

and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria,

and to the end of the earth."

Ortho Improvements!

One of the biggest complaints I heard about when dealing with Ortho's was the naming of the view.  If you forgot to name it before creating it, you were stuck with "Unnamed View".  Fixed!

Now a right-click on the view will give you an option to rename and edit the view from the Project Manager Palette.

Also, the name is automatically created for you now as "Front View" or "Right View" so you don't have to remember or have to go back and change it.

Another great improvement to the Ortho portion of P3D.

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Acts 1:8 "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you,

and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria,

and to the end of the earth."