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When you archive final drawings that contain xrefs, you have two choices:
Store the xref drawings along with the final drawing
Bind the xref drawings to the final drawing
Storing an xref drawing along with the final drawing requires that the drawings
always remain together. Any change to the referenced drawing will continue
to be reflected in the final drawing.
To prevent unintentional updating of archived drawings by later changes to
referenced drawings, bind the xrefs to the final drawing.
Binding an xref to a drawing makes the xref a permanent part of the drawing
and no longer an externally referenced file. You can bind the entire database
of the xref drawing, including all its xref-dependent named objects (blocks,
dimension styles, layers, linetypes, and text styles), by using the XREF Bind
option. For more information, see
Resolve Name Conflicts in External Refer-
ences
(page 474).
Binding xrefs to a drawing is also an easy way to send a drawing to reviewers.
Rather than sending a master drawing plus each of the drawings it references,
you can use the Bind option to merge the xrefs into the master drawing.
NOTE You cannot bind xrefs that contain proxy objects. For more information,
see
Work with Custom and Proxy Objects (page 512).
Archive Drawings That Contain Referenced Drawings
(Bind)
To bind an xref to the current drawing
1 On the Mac OS menu bar, click ToolsPalettes Reference
Manager .
2 In the Reference Manager, click a DWG reference.
3 Right-click the selected DWG reference and select Bind from the shortcut
menu.
The objects in the xref are converted into a block reference. Named object
definitions are added to the current drawing with a prefix of blockname
$n$, where n is a number starting at 0.
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