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Altering xrefs

Altering xrefs

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Altering xrefs

In this video, you will see what happens when you alter information that's xrefed into another drawing file. Open the Architectural2 and Furniture drawing files from the altering xrefs subfolder in chapter 14. So let's go to the furniture drawing. And here let's say that the furniture designer is going to rotate this table, click rotate. Select the table. Enter. Click a base point near the middle of the table and rotate it. Approximately at the same angle as this balcony that overlooks this space below. Then, type m + enter, and move that information down into this area here, so that there's sort of a conflict between the room tag and the furniture. Now let's save our work. And, our colleague, who is working on architectural two, gets a notification bubble automatically. As soon as, the furniture designer saves the furniture file your colleague, will receive this bubble notification. All they have to do is click the hyperlink right here. And the xref will be reloaded. Now you see the…

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