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Clipping XREFs

Clipping XREFs - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Clipping XREFs

- [Voiceover] When you're working with your XREF in your house drawing, you can set what is called a clipping boundary and what this allows you to do is it allows you to clip the XREF back to a certain boundary. Now in the case of our property line, that would not be too obvious 'cause it's purely a dashed line, but let's say we had something like a PDF as the XREF underneath and it was showing all the contours and all the buildings around our property. What we could do is we could clip that back so that it fits into a viewport perhaps in a layout when we're preparing our AutoCAD drawing. Now the benefit you do have with this is you just literally select your XREF like so. So I've clicked on the XREF in the drawing and I'm staying in the 13 XREF.dwg file using the XREF that we've already attached. You'll notice that we get the contextual tab on the ribbon, the External Reference tab, and you can see there in the Clipping panel, we have Create Clipping Boundary. So if I click there now…

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