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Editing XREFs

Editing XREFs - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Editing XREFs

- [Instructor] Once again, we're staying in our XREFs .dwg file, and you can see our property line external reference file has been loaded into the house drawing as well. XREFs are often a way of people collaborating on AutoCAD drawings. So, for example, someone might be working on the external reference file, while you're working on the geometry in the house drawing, the XREFs .dwg file. So, let's try and replicate that scenario, by going up to open, and we'll open up the property line drawing, like so. So there's our property line drawing, and you can see that it's just a simple drawing using a dashed-line type. What I'm going to do is click on it, and you can see it is a polyline. And what I'm going to do now, is I'm going to change the shape of the polyline, and I'm going to hover here, like so, and I'm going to add a vertex on this side here, like so, to there. And then, I'm going to hit escape a couple of…

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