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Resolve Referenced Drawing Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1311
Resolve Missing External References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1311
Resolve Circular External References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1313
Resolve Name Conflicts in External References . . . . . . . . . 1313
Track External Reference Operations (Log File) . . . . . . . . . 1315
Increase Performance with Large Referenced Drawings . . . . . . . . 1319
Overview of Demand Loading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1319
Unload Xrefs in Large Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1320
Work with Demand Loading in Large Drawings . . . . . . . . . 1320
Work with Layer and Spatial Indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1322
Set Paths for Temporary Xref File Copies . . . . . . . . . . . . 1323
Chapter 33
Link and Embed Data (OLE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1325
Overview of Object Linking and Embedding . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1325
Import OLE Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1328
Overview of Importing OLE Objects into Drawings . . . . . . . 1328
Link OLE Objects in Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1329
Embed OLE Objects in Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1332
Export OLE Objects from Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1335
Edit OLE Objects in Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1337
Chapter 34
Work with Data in Other Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1341
Convert Drawing File Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1341
Understand the Effect of Format Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . 1343
Save Conversion Settings for Later Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1348
Save Lists of Files for Batch Conversions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1350
Import Other File Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1351
Convert DXF Files to DWG Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1351
Import MicroStation DGN Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1352
Insert WMF Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1358
Attach Files as Underlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1360
Overview of Underlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1360
Attach, Scale, and Detach Underlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1361
Work with Underlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1371
Manage and Publish Drawings Containing Underlays . . . . . 1385
Attach Raster Image Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1392
Overview of Raster Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1392
Attach, Scale, and Detach Raster Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1395
Modify Raster Images and Image Boundaries . . . . . . . . . . 1399
Manage Raster Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1405
Tune Raster Image Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1411
Export Drawings to Other File Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1414
Export DWF and DWFx Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1414
Export PDF Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1416
Export DXF Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1417
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