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Alter and clip XREFs

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Alter and clip XREFs

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- [Man] We're staying in our XREFs.dwg file, and you can see that the property line XREF is actually applied to the drawing at the moment, you can see the dash line going around the building, and around the grids, and everything else. Now, one of the nice things that you can do with XREFs is create what is called a clipping boundary, because you might not want to see all of the XREF in the host drawing. So, let's have a look at that and see how that works, I can use Clip here, and you can see I can clip a block an externally referenced file or a viewport to a specified boundary. So, that means I can clip an XREF to a specified boundary, but, there's actually a quicker way, and a nicer workflow, which is a bit more direct. If you simply select the XREF, so, I'm clicking on the property line, and you'll notice on the External Reference tab that pops up on the ribbon, I can create a clipping boundary there, and I can remove a clipping boundary. Click on Create Clipping Boundary. When you…

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