From the course: AutoCAD: Working with Drawings Exported From Revit
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Editing the XREFs in AutoCAD - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD: Working with Drawings Exported From Revit
Editing the XREFs in AutoCAD
- [Instructor] So we're staying in our A-100.dwg file, and that's our host drawing file, remember? And we've gpt the XREF, the External Reference, the view port from the Revit export, as our XREF file. Now, you can see it's here. If I zoom in close, this is my XREF. So if I click on it, it's all one Reference, and if I hit escape to deselect it, it's all one Reference. Now, what I can do is, I can edit the XREF. And the way to do that, is twofold. I can select it here, like so. And you'll notice I can edit the Reference in place, if I want to. So if I click there, you'll see now, there's the Reference Edit, and there's the A-100_00 Ground. You can see there's lots of different bits of information in there. All those universal columns are all of the column blocks, the AutoCAD blocks, that I've come across with the Revit export. Now, if I select that, and I click on Okay, you can see there, the XREF selected references a previous Release drawing file format. That's because I'm using…
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