Overlaying external references
When a drawing that contains overlaid external references is itself attached or overlaid as an external reference in another drawing, the overlays do not appear as part of the external reference. Use overlaying when you want to see reference geometry in a drawing but you do not need to include that geometry in drawings that will be used by others.
To overlay an external reference
- Advanced experience level
- Do one of the following:
- Choose Tools > External Reference.
- On the Tools toolbar, click the External Reference tool (
).
- Type xref and then press Enter.
- In the prompt box, choose Overlay.
- In the Select File To Overlay dialog box, specify the drawing file to be overlaid as an external reference, and then click Open.
- Specify the insertion point for the external reference.
- Specify the x, y, and z scale factors and the rotation angle, or choose Done to accept the default values.
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Attaching external references
Changing the path for external references
Detaching external references
Inserting and binding external references to drawings
Reloading external references
Xref Clipping