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Say you have "child.dwg", and it has a bunch of layers in it, and they are all RED. Now say you have "parent.dwg" and you xref in "child.dwg". When you first create the reference, all of the layers in "child.dwg" (as viewed as a reference in "parent.dwg") will be red. Now say that in "parent.dwg", you change the color of all of the reference layers in "child.dwg" to green. You save "parent.dwg", close it, then reopen it. If VISRETAIN is set to 1 in "parent.dwg", when you reopen it, all of the "child.dwg" layers will still be green. If VISRETAIN is set to 0 in "parent.dwg", when you reopen it, all of the "child.dwg" layers will revert to red I just used color as an example, but the same thing applies to other layer properties.

THIS should do what you want.

When I type DBC at the command line, the DBConnect palette opens and a DBCconnect item is added to my menu bar. If you don't want this, just type DBCCLOSE and the palette will close and the menu bar item will disappear.

If you are dealing with entity names and picksets, look into (ssmemb) & (ssdel) -David

@haisagiviz BTW: you should have started a new topic for your problem.

@haisagiviz Every dimension relies on a block that contains all its graphical information. Whenever you change a dimension a new block is created based on the settings of the dimstyle. If the original dimension block was based on the same settings, this is usually the case of course, the updated dimension will look as expected. In your dwg however the original dimension blocks are not based on the settings in the dimstyle. And dimensions that seem to have overrides for the extension lines in fact do not. This makes manipulating these dimensions much harder. I advise you to apply a new dimstyle without extension lines. Anything beyond that is a waste of effort IMO.

Once you save a 2017 file in SW 2018 it will become a 2018 file that cannot be opened in 2017 anymore

Try the attached file.PutDefPointsOnDimLine.lsp

Here's an existing example (change 'dxf' to 'dwg' in the code) - there are also other variations of the program posted in that thread.