Mirrored Building Construction Documents

[darkstknight1523]

Our office is having a tough go at creating a single set of CDs that could be used again for the exact building mirrored. In our office we typically create a set of base drawings of the floor plans of the buildings (basement, first, second, etc.) without much annotation on those plans. Once finished, this baseplan.dwg is XREFed into A-100, E-100, ST-100, etc. We are very comfortable working this way, but right now we have a wrench thrown in.

 

We have building A, 3-story, single family home. We were hoping to create a set of CDs for building A and once finished (or while we're doing the drawings), mirror building A's set and use them as building B, which is just a mirror image of building A. The issue we have is that when we mirror the CDs, the annotations (dimensions, text, etc.) mirror as a block and obviously are backwards. Essentially, we're trying to do half the work; create building A's drawings and have building B's drawings update simultaneously.

 

Our first attempt has been a failure. We've created baseplan.dwg (just the base plans), A-100A.dwg (which has baseplan.dwg XREFed in as an overlay and then dimensioned, tagged, etc.) and had hope to proceed with the next set of drawings (E-100, P-100, etc.) if all went well. However, when I started the set for building B, I created A-100B.dwg and XREFed both the baseplan.dwg and A-100A.dwg in. I then attempted to mirror the two (2) XREFs to show the reflection of the building, but the dimensions are not mirroring properly. I have toyed with MIRRTEXT's settings, but that isn't doing the trick.

 

Is there a solution or suggestion of how we can accomplish doing one set of drawings, somehow XREF those drawings, just mirrored?

[Frosty]

See Building "A" (typ.)