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Missing reference files

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Missing reference files

- [Instructor] Sometimes, more often than not when working with AutoCAD, you'll come across a host drawing where the reference file cannot be located or read. So, if you look at the screen at the moment, you can see that our HostDrawing.dwg file is open. You can see the name of it at the top of the screen. But, the reference file has not been found. Now that is our ExternalReferences.dwg file. And what I've done for this particular video is I've deliberately moved the reference file to a different location. What I've done is I've put it on my Windows desktop. AutoCAD 2018 is looking for that external references file using a relative file path, so that ExternalReferences.dwg file should be in the same folder as the HostDrawing.dwg file, but in this case, it isn't. So what happens is AutoCAD goes, "Ah! "I can't find the reference file." So it brings up this little dialog box on the screen. So you have a number of bits of information here that are very useful. One of them is, obviously…

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