From the course: Learning AutoCAD for Mac 2019
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Understanding external references - AutoCAD for Mac Tutorial
From the course: Learning AutoCAD for Mac 2019
Understanding external references
- [Instructor] Another way of sharing information or having multiple users work together collaboratively is to use external references. External references are similar to inserting blocks, but have the added benefit of live updating, so if the file being referenced changes, the user can see the updates in the drawing that they're working on. For example, if I'm working on a mechanical assembly, I might have three or four components that each have their own drawing file. I can reference these components from their individual files into the master assembly, and as other users work on these components themselves, I'll receive a notification every time they save the component drawing. So I can reload the component and see how it affects the rest of the assembly. Referencing the files also allows the assembly drawing to remain smaller, as the geometry itself is not inside the drawing itself. This is especially helpful if there are numerous, complicated components, or even 3D models. To…
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