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Table Of Contents
Chapter 31 Reference Other Drawing Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173
Overview of Referenced Drawings (Xrefs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173
Attach and Detach Referenced Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1176
Attach Drawing References (Xrefs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1176
Set Paths to Referenced Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1181
Detach Referenced Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1183
Update and Bind Referenced Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1184
Nest and Overlay Referenced Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1184
Update Referenced Drawing Attachments . . . . . . . . . . . . 1186
Archive Drawings That Contain Referenced Drawings
(Bind)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1189
Clip External References and Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1190
Edit Referenced Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1195
Edit a Referenced Drawing in a Separate Window . . . . . . . . 1195
Edit Selected Objects in Referenced Drawings and Blocks . . . . 1196
Use the Working Set to Edit Referenced Drawings and
Blocks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1200
Save Back Edited Referenced Drawings and Blocks . . . . . . . 1202
Edit Referenced Drawings and Blocks with Nesting, OLE, or
Attributes
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1203
Resolve Referenced Drawing Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1205
Resolve Missing External References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1205
Resolve Circular External References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1207
Resolve Name Conflicts in External References . . . . . . . . . 1207
Track External Reference Operations (Log File) . . . . . . . . . 1209
Increase Performance with Large Referenced Drawings . . . . . . . . 1212
Overview of Demand Loading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1212
Unload Xrefs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1213
Work with Demand Loading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1214
Work with Layer and Spatial Indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1216
Set Paths for Temporary Xref File Copies . . . . . . . . . . . . 1217
Chapter 32
Link and Embed Data (OLE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1219
Overview of Object Linking and Embedding . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1219
Import OLE Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1222
Overview of Importing OLE Objects into Drawings . . . . . . . 1222
Link OLE Objects in Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1223
Embed OLE Objects in Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1226
Export OLE Objects from Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1229
Edit OLE Objects in Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1231
Chapter 33
Work with Data in Other Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1235
Import Other File Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1235
Convert DXF Files to DWG Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1235
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