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Referencing external reference drawings (XREFs) and raster images - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: Cert Prep: AutoCAD Certified Professional
Referencing external reference drawings (XREFs) and raster images
- [Narrator] We're now going to start taking a look at reference drawings or XREFS as they're known, external reference drawings. The abbreviation for that is XREF and it tends to be used very commonly in the AutoCAD community. Now, you'll notice I've actually got two drawings open this time, both of which you can download from the website and use as exercise files for this particular video. Make sure that you store them in the same folder so that you can use the relative file path when you're bringing the reference drawing into the host drawing. So, we've got Reusing_XREFS open at the moment. That's the host drawing. The XREF_Shaft drawing is going to be the reference drawing that we bring into the Reusing_XREFS drawing. So the shaft basically will come into this drawing and become part of the assembly by sitting inside the sleeve there. Now, how do we reference in one drawing into another? Well, we go to the insert tab on the ribbon. We go to the reference panel, and we click on…
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