From the course: AutoCAD 2017: Migrating from Windows to Mac
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External references - AutoCAD for Mac Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2017: Migrating from Windows to Mac
External references
- [Instructor] External references are an important part of working in an office with others. They allow us to work collaboratively in an office or even with other offices no matter what their location. Of course, as anyone who works with external references would surely agree, they can be a little squirrely. I wish I could say that AutoCAD for Mac makes working with external references any easier, but we actually have to add another consideration and it has more to do with Mac OS X and Windows than it does with either version of AutoCAD, so let's take a quick step back from AutoCAD for just a moment and look at the way the operating systems themselves work with computer drives. Windows, as I'm sure you're familiar, likes to use drive letters to designate different storage drives, like the C drive, the D drive, or, in a case of your office, it may be the P drive, the S drive, or any other letter that your IT department chose for your servers. Mac OS X doesn't use these drive letters…
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