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Changing path type

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Changing path type

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- [Narrator] So we're back in our HostDrawing.dwg file and as you can see right now, we have a file referenced into our host drawing file. And that's our ExternalReferences.dwg file. Now the way that I can check that is go to the insert tab on the ribbon, up to the reference panel, click here to get the external references palette, and you can see there's my external references file there that I've referenced into my host drawing. If I select that now, in the references palette, you can see it highlights in the drawing there, as I select it, but more importantly if I come down here, you can see the saved path is relative. That .\ indicates that it is a relative path, and the ExternalReferences.dwg file is in the same folder as the host drawing file. Now, basically what we can do here is we can change our path type. Now that doesn't mean that we're changing the path location, we're just changing the path type from relative to what they call absolute. Which is the actual physical file…

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