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Browse Displays the Open File dialog that enables you to browse for a new
source file. The file you choose replaces the highlighted XRef record in the
XRef Objects dialog. Available only when a single file is highlighted.
Reveal Location in Explorer Launches Windows Explorer, open to the folder
in which the highlighted source file resides with the source file highlighted.
Available only when a single file is highlighted.
Strip Path Removes path information from the file name, saving only the
file name. The source file location is saved relative to the master file location.
WARNING If you strip the path before you have saved the master file, the record's
XRefs can become unresolved. This is because there is no location for the Untitled,
unsaved MAX scene.
Resolve Path to UNC Location If the record's file name has had its path
stripped, this option restores the full path name.
Combine XRef Records Click to combine the contents of more than one
XRef record from the same source file into one record. This is useful when
you want to clean up the organization of your XRef records. Rather than
having multiple records of the same file, you can group all of the objects,
controllers, and materials from that file under the same record. This option
is available only when you highlight two records that refer to the same file
name and path; both records must have identical settings. XRef records must
refer to the same file with the same XRef entities. Combine XRef Records only
allows you to consolidate all of the entities of one file into one XRef record
entry. It does not allow you to combine the contents of different files, even
if the files have the same name.
NOTE Nested externally referenced records cannot be combined.
Update Refreshes the contents of the selected XRef record. If the objects,
controllers, materials, or manipulators referenced have changed in the source
scene, you will see these changes in your master scene.
NOTE The changes must be saved in the source file before you see them in the
master file. If you remove externally referenced entities from the master file using
the Delete XRef Entity button, these entities will not be externally referenced when
you update the XRef record, even though they continue to exist in the source
scene.
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