Transferring drawings containing XRefs is not as easy as sending the main host file. You need to send the host file as well as its dependent XRefs with the same folder structure as the main drawing. Doing this manually is time-consuming and prone to error, but we can use eTransmit to do this quickly and with lots of other customizations too.
In the following example, we will learn how to create the eTransmit package for the drawing we have created so far with multiple attached XRefs:
- Open the main XRef host drawing and then activate the eTransmit command using the application button in the top left of the AutoCAD window, as shown in Figure 9.23, or use the ETRANSMIT command: