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Attaching and overlaying XREFs

Attaching and overlaying XREFs - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Attaching and overlaying XREFs

- [Voiceover] In the previous video, we looked at how we managed our XREFs and how they were attached to our host drawing, 13_XREFS.dwg file. Now, I'm staying in the same file, the 13_XREFS.dwg file, but we're going to do something a little bit radical. We're going to select the XREF, the PropertyLine XREF by clicking on it, and then I'm literally going to hit the Delete key, and I'm going to delete the XREF. Now I've deleted the XREF from the drawing, but I haven't detached it. How can you tell? If you go down to the bottom right corner, can you see our little orange XREF icon is still lit up? So, click on it to manage the XREFs, and you can see that the PropertyLine XREF is still there, but it's got a little exclamation mark next to it. That indicates that it is unreferenced. Can you see that in the Details there? So we've got an XREF listed in the drawing, in the host drawing, but we cannot find it. It's been deleted. So if you want it to go completely, you have to right-click on…

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