External References and Dynamic Blocks
In a real-world situation, you will often find many people working on a single project. This will be a big issue if everyone is required to work on a single AutoCAD file because once a file is opened by someone, if you open it again, the file will be read-only and won’t allow you to make modifications. Fortunately, we have a tool in AutoCAD that allows many people to work on separate files of a project. Then, these files can be grouped in the main drawing using the External References tool, which we will discuss in this chapter. We will also discuss the dynamic block tool, which lets us make blocks with dynamic features. Finally, we will learn about cleaning our drawings and fixing drawing-related issues.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Working with External References (XRefs)
- Working with dynamic blocks
- Cleaning and fixing drawing issues
Let’s get started with an overview of External...
