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Attaching XREFs

Attaching XREFs - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Attaching XREFs

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We're starting a new chapter now and we're going to take a look at a thing called external references more commonly known as XREFs in the AutoCAD fraternity now an XREF is another drawing that is in essence paper clipped to your existing drawing so you'll notice we've got a new drawing for you at the moment it's called newofficeproposal.dwg and you can download that from the library to follow along with the next few videos you'll also notice I've got another drawing open as well called the landscaping area also open that drawing after you've downloaded it from the library as well and then in the file tabs make sure that newofficeproposal is your current drawing So newofficeproposal.dwg becomes the host drawing and we're going to xref in the landscaping area as an external reference file. Now you want to make sure that all of your external references go on their own layer so in this particular drawing you'll see that we have an xrefs layer right down at the bottom of the list there…

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