From the course: AutoCAD 2014 Essential Training: 5 Working with References
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Understanding external references - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2014 Essential Training: 5 Working with References
Understanding external references
Earlier when we talked about redefining blocks, we saw that if we changed a blocks definition, all associated blocks in the drawing were updated. We can take that concept even further. Imagine making changes to a drawing and having those changes show up in several other drawings. To do this, we'll use a concept called external referencing. On my screen I have some geometry that represents an office floor plan. Now there's not a whole lot in this file. If I open the layer control you can see we pretty much just have walls and doors. Let's say that this drawing was created by an architect, and the architect has an interior designer on staff, and the architect asked this person to design the furniture layout for this office. I would like to close this drawing and take a look at the file that the interior designer is working on. I'm not going to save changes. I'll move up and click Open. And we'll open this file called number one furniture. If I zoom in, we can see some of the furniture…
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