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AutoCAD 2016 and AutoCAD LT 2016 No Experience Required: Autodesk Official Press
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AutoCAD 2016 and AutoCAD LT 2016 No Experience Required: Autodesk Official Press

by Donnie Gladfelter
November 2015
Beginner content levelBeginner
1008 pages
23h 4m
English
Sybex
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Chapter 13 Managing External References

The floor plan of a complex building project might actually be a composite of several Autodesk® AutoCAD® program files that are linked together as external references to the current drawing. This enables parts of a drawing to be worked on at different workstations (or in different offices) while remaining linked to a central host file. In mechanical engineering, a drawing might similarly be a composite of the various subparts that make up an assembly.

External references, or xrefs, are DWG files that have been temporarily connected to the current drawing and are used as reference information. The externally referenced drawing is visible in the current drawing. You can manipulate its layers, colors, ...

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