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Renaming unloaded references

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Renaming unloaded references

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- [Instructor] We're staying in our HostDrawing.dwg file and you can see there that our externalreferences.dwg file is still referenced into the drawing. So what I'm going to do now is go to the insert tab on the ribbon. I'm going to go up to the little arrow on the reference panel and open up my external references palette again. So there's our ExternalReferences reference file. You can see it's loaded into our HostDrawing.dwg file at the moment and if you look down at the details you can see it's using a relative file path. Now, what we're going to look at now is renaming an unloaded reference. Now what would normally happen is if I right-click on ExternalReferences there and unload it, don't detach it, just unload it like so. You can see there that obviously it disappears from the HostDrawing, which is normal, but also as well now, if I rename the reference down here in the details to say I don't know, ExternalReferences001 and press enter, you'll notice it doesn't automatically…

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