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Editing XREFs - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2018 Essential Training
Editing XREFs
- [Voiceover] I'm staying in the 13 XREFs.dwg file and the PropertyLine.dwg is still X-reffed into my host drawing. Let's have a look now at editing external references and how we can change the settings of something like a drawing that you've X-reffed into your host drawing. Obviously, we've seen where if we click on the XREF, that brings up the external reference tab on the ribbon, and we looked to that when we were creating the cooking boundaries. Now, I can open the reference file here. That will open the block or external reference in a separate window. So, if I click there, as you can see the PropertyLine drawing is now open and I can go and edit that if I want to. So, I can edit it in its own, separate, dwg file. And that's what I'm going to do now. I'm going to edit the property line XREFs. So, I'm just going to come down here a little bit, and what I'm going to do is I'm going to click here. Now, it is a poly line, but what I'm going to do is I'm going to take this, here…
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Working with XREFs3m 13s
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Attaching and overlaying XREFs4m 6s
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Clipping XREFs3m 10s
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Editing XREFs4m 7s
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Editing XREFs in place2m 52s
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Unnamed drawings2m 29s
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Updating reference paths2m 58s
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Missing reference files3m 39s
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Changing path type2m 3s
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Finding and replacing reference files4m 17s
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Renaming unloaded references3m 18s
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