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Attaching source drawings - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD Map 3D Essential Training
Attaching source drawings
- [Instructor] Source drawings are those DWGs that contain all your information. Attaching source drawings to another often blank drawing enables you to combine data and query information from multiple source drawings. Let's attach some now. In our current DWG, we're going to click on Map Explorer, right click on Drawings, and click Attach. You'll notice in the look in area of your select drawings to attach dialogue box, there's only a C drive to choose from. If you have other drives or you want to make a short cut or alias, you can click on the Create Edit Aliases button to create them. As you can see, there's only a C drive. You may use a J drive or Q drive or in this case, we're going to make an exercise files shortcut or alias. So we're going to type exercise underscore files. The actual path will be on the desktop, exercise files. So go to the desktop, Exercise Files. Click OK and click Add. You'll see that there's now an alias called exercise files that point to my desktop. Hit…
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