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You can also use Xrefs temporarily to help ensure that mating drawings match.

an Interior Design.dwg could reference the Floor Plan.dwg to show furniture relative to the walls.Īny changes to the Floor Plan.dwg would be automatically updated when you Open any of the host drawings.

an Electrical.dwg could reference the Floor Plan.dwg to show electrical outlets relative to the walls.

an Architectural.dwg could reference the Floor Plan.dwg with information specific to this discipline (e.g.

You can also share common elements in related drawings as Xrefs.įor example, a Floor Plan.dwg could be referenced in many other drawings that relate to the walls in an office design.

otherwise, when you Open your host drawings you may not see all of the required drawing data.

but you must manage your drawing files carefully to be sure the externally referenced drawings are always accessible.

When you use Xrefs you can be sure that your host drawing files are always up-to-date

any changes to component files (Xrefs) are automatically updated in the assembly drawing file (host).

assembly drawings (hosts) reference component files (Xrefs).

Xrefs are practical in large projects because several different people can work on separate Xref components at the same time.Īssembly drawings are a typical application for reference files.whereas, when you Insert a drawing into another drawing, there is no link back to the inserted (external) drawing file.except when you Open a host (a drawing that references external files) the current version of each referenced file is used.Using an e Xternal reference file ( Xref) in the current drawing is similar to using Insert to insert a drawing file into the current file