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Updating reference paths

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Updating reference paths

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- [Instructor] We now have a new drawing available for this particular video in the chapter about external references. So, you'll notice we have a HostDrawing.dwg file. You can see the name at the top of the screen. All I've done is I've actually named the unnamed file from the previous video, and I've called it HostDrawing.dwg. So instead of drawing two or drawing three or drawing four or whatever, it's now actually got a physical name and it's been renamed as host drawing. What we've also got there is the external references drawing here, which you can see on the tabs, has been referenced into the host drawing, as you can see. If I just click on it there like that, it's all one object, and you can see it's a reference and the external reference tab kicks in on the ribbon there, like so. I'll just hit escape now to deselect it. So what we're going to look at now is updating reference paths. So what happens now, if, for example, I do a save as and save my host drawing as a different…

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