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In Autodesk Inventor, have you ever wanted to open the IDW or DWG of a part while you are in the part? Or have you ever wanted to open the part when in the IDW or DWG?

Tip#: 4470
Author: David Gaskill
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 11-May-2015
Downloads: 0
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Editor's Note: This tip was updated in July 2015. The original version was restricted to xrefs only, the author notes, but ordinary blocks can also be XClipped, so the upda...  Read more

Tip#: 4447
Author: Kent Cooper
Rename File To: XClipID-2.lsp
Published on: 30-Mar-2015
Downloads: 181
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

Michael Partenheimer gives us a slick way to change xrefs in AutoCAD without losing your layer settings. First off, read the included TXT file that describes the process in detail....  Read more

Tip#: 4418
Author: Michael Partenheimer
Rename File To: UpXr/,UpXr/UpXr.lsp,UpXr/UpXr.txt
Published on: 26-Jan-2015
Downloads: 2008
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

Do you ever have to send AutoCAD drawings with xrefs? Here is a tip for combining all the xref files into one file to make sending them easier.

While in a drawing with xrefs, activ...  Read more

Tip#: 4383
Author: David Gaskill
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 20-Oct-2014
Downloads: 0
Rating:
2
  Rated by 3 users

Reference drawing layers can be modified in the parent drawing and changes to color, linetype, and other properties are maintained as long as the system variable Visretain is set to 1. If you want ...  Read more

Tip#: 4330
Author: Benzigar Peter
Rename File To: xrecol.lsp
Published on: 29-Jun-2014
Downloads: 593
Rating:
4
  Rated by 1 users

Matt Sibum has created a routine to quickly unload and reload external reference drawings. This can be used for isolation of xrefs, and it is very fast to use. After you load the L...  Read more

Tip#: 4310
Author: Matt Sibum
Rename File To: getxref.lsp
Published on: 17-May-2014
Downloads: 383
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

Here, frequent tipster Danny Korem shares a multitude of AutoCAD tips regarding file sharing for the purpose of file referencing.

Most of AutoCAD’s users work as a pa...  Read more

Tip#: 4304
Author: Danny Korem
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Published on: 12-May-2014
Downloads: 0
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R. Clayton Harrison sent this handy AutoCAD tip.

I’ve been using Ncopy for some time now. It allows you to copy objects nested within an Xref. I nearly always want th...  Read more

Tip#: 4297
Author: R. Clayton Harrison
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 28-Apr-2014
Downloads: 0
Rating:
5
  Rated by 2 users

Many times when you are working in AutoCAD and attaching an external reference drawing, you will want the new xref to have the same properties as an existing xref, such as insertion point, rotation...  Read more

Tip#: 4289
Author: Leland Leahy
Rename File To: xref2.lsp
Published on: 13-Apr-2014
Downloads: 284
Rating:
1
  Rated by 1 users

Manually changing the path for external reference files is something almost all of us have done at one time or another. Tip author Clinton Cogswell uses this LISP routine to perfor...  Read more

Tip#: 4232
Author: Clinton Cogswell
Rename File To: xref path replace.LSP
Published on: 20-Dec-2013
Downloads: 1238
Rating:
2
  Rated by 1 users