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Open dialog box

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- [Instructor] One useful way to find and change file references is through the Open Dialog box. Now, typically this is found by clicking on Open up at the top or going over to File and Open. This is the Open Dialog box. Now you can see with nothing selected, I have all of these options grayed out, except for the References button. I'm gonna navigate to a spot where I have some files downloaded. Here I've got an assembly of our good friend R2D2 that I've downloaded off of GrabCAD. You can see that once I click on the item, I'm given the option to change the mode, select my configuration and my display state, but I also have the ability to go in and see and adjust my file references. So I'm gonna click on this button. And you can see here that I'm given the Edit Reference File Locations window, so inside of here we can see all of the file locations for this assembly, so it's pretty simple. There's three sub-assemblies and two parts contained within. Now let's say for some reason I want…

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