Autodesk CIVIL3D - CIVILDESIGNCOMP 2007 SLM CD Tutorials Manual page 753

Attach drawings as Xrefs for annotation
1 Using Windows Explorer, navigate to the
819). Select all of the drawings that have names beginning with Labels-.
Click Edit menu
2 Navigate to the My Civil Tutorial Data folder
tab Clipboard panel
In a later exercise, you will modify some of the externally referenced
drawings. To make the modifications, the drawings must be in a location
to which you have write access.
3 Open Labels-1a.dwg, which you saved in the
(page 819) in step 2.
4 In Toolspace, on the Prospector tab, expand the Labels-1a drawing.
Although a surface with an outside boundary is displayed in the drawing
window, notice that the Surfaces collection is empty. The Surfaces
collection is empty because the composite surface is an external reference,
or Xref. The surface data, which is quite large, exists in a separate drawing.
TIP In large projects that have multiple surfaces, each surface object should
reside in its own drawing. For example, the existing ground surface should
exist in one drawing, with other drawings containing data references to it.
For example, the proposed ground surface should exist in its own drawing,
with a data reference to the existing ground surface.
5 On the command line, enter XREF.
In the External References dialog box, notice the difference in size between
the current drawing (Labels-1a) and the externally referenced drawing
that contains the surface (Labels-Surface). While the surface object appears
in the current drawing, the size of the current drawing is a fraction of
the surface drawing. Using Xrefs, you can use data from another drawing
without actually inserting the data.
6 In the External References palette, click the arrow next to
Attach DWG.
NOTE Notice that you can also attach a drawing from Vault.
7 In the Select Reference File dialog box, navigate to the
Data folder (page 819). Select the drawings Labels_Alignments.dwg and
Labels_Parcels.dwg. Click Open.
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tutorial drawings folder
Copy.
(page 819). Click Home
Paste drop-down
(page
Paste.
My Civil Tutorial Data folder
. Click
My Civil Tutorial