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Missing reference files - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2018 Essential Training
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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Working with XREFs3m 13s
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Attaching and overlaying XREFs4m 6s
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Clipping XREFs3m 10s
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Editing XREFs4m 7s
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Editing XREFs in place2m 52s
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Unnamed drawings2m 29s
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Updating reference paths2m 58s
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Missing reference files3m 39s
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Changing path type2m 3s
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Finding and replacing reference files4m 17s
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Renaming unloaded references3m 18s
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