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Finding and replacing reference files - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2018 Essential Training
Finding and replacing reference files
- [Instructor] So, we're back in our HostDrawing.dwg file, and as you can see, our reference is in the host drawing already, and that's our ExternalReferences.dwg file. Now, what I've done is I've referenced in the ExternalReferences.dwg file from the same folder location as the host drawing file. So, how do I check that first of all? Well, what I do is I go to the Insert tab on the ribbon, go to the Reference panel here, click on the flyout, and there's my ExternalReferences reference file that's coming into my host drawing. Now, remember the host drawing, regardless of the file name is always the blue and yellow little icon there, and the reference files have a little sort of paper clip DWG icon. So, my external references file is referenced into my host drawing file. Now, if I select that ExternalReferences and come down to the details, there's the little dot on the slash in the details telling me that it is a relative file path. So, that's means that ExternalReferences and…
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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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