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Altering and clipping XREFs

Altering and clipping XREFs - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Altering and clipping XREFs

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We're staying in our newofficeproposal.dwg file and make sure you are in that particular file and not the landscaping area file. You can leave the landscaping area file open that's absolutely fine but make sure that your current drawing is new office proposal like so. Now what we're going to take a look at is altering and clipping our external reference file. Now let's have a look at altering the file first now altering the file would normally mean that you open up the landscaping area drawing now I've already got that open so altering the file is actually really easy I can just jump in here landscaping area and I can alter it accordingly and save the changes so what I'll do is I'll click on the hatch pattern and I'll just hit the delete key and I'll delete that like so and then I'll save that drawing so I'll just save it like that okay and then what I'll do is I'll jump back to the new office proposal drawing and you'll notice there oh look an XRef was modified a little pop-up comes…

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