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Filter
Select Filter to turn on the current drawing filter.
When the filter is on, only drawings that match the filter are displayed. If
the parent drawing of a nested drawing is filtered, the nested drawing is
not displayed, even if it matches the filter.
To create or change the filter, click Filter. In the
Drawing Set Display Filter
dialog box
(page 1922), you can create separate filters for file names and
descriptions.
Attach
Display the
Select Drawings to Attach dialog box (page 1811), where you can
attach additional source drawings to the current drawing.
To attach drawings to a source drawing, open the source drawing directly,
and then attach the drawings.
To open the source drawing, click
➤ Open ➤ AutoCAD Drawing.
Detach
Detach the selected drawings from the current drawing.
If you detach a parent drawing, all nested drawings attached to that drawing
are also detached.
Drawing Maintenance dialog box
Use this dialog box to remove locks from drawings and create drawing indexes.
To create a drawing index (page 1294)
To release all locked objects (page 736)
Click Map Setup tab ➤ Map panel ➤
➤ Drawing Maintenance.
NOTE These options affect drawing objects only. For information about locking
and sharing geospatial feature data, see
Checking Out Features (page 695).
Use the options in the Active Drawings area to see which drawings currently
have locks.
Use the options in the Locks area to see which users have objects locked, and
to remove those locks. This feature is useful if a system goes down while objects
are locked.
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