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Editing XREFs

Editing XREFs - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Editing XREFs

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Editing your external reference files, your xrefs, is actually really quick and easy in AutoCAD nowadays. So we're staying in the same view in our new office proposal.dwg file and I'm going to select the landscaping area external reference there like that. That'll bring up the external reference tab up on the ribbon. Now we've got two ways of editing our reference file. We can edit the reference in place which I will cover in the next video but we can also just open the reference now the landscaping area drawing is already open there so if I click on open reference it automatically takes me to that open drawing file so landscapingarea.dwg is our xref file which is part of our host drawing which is our new office proposal drawing so what I could do here for example is make some changes to the landscaping area drawing it's very similar to what we did in the previous video so I'm just going to stay on the zero layer and I'm just going to draw some lines so I'm going to draw a line from…

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