AutoCAD Xref Tutorial (2021)- Everything you need to know in 5 minutes! 

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Hi many thanks for your kind comment! This is very helpful to me as it keeps me going! Thank you!

Hi Merih, thank you for your comment and feedback! Happy to hear this

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@Benedict Terry thanks, I went there and it seems to work :D I really appreciate it!

@Avi Langston Glad I could help :)

Glad you find it useful!

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I am glad to hear that! If is there any other tutorials that you would like to see let me know!

@@CivilTechSource Sure! :) You're so cool!

Thank you for your kind words and support!

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Hi Katarzyna, that's is an excellent question! I would advise to setup everything correctly to true North. Once you have overlaid architectural and survey to true North, you can run the UCS command to suit best your layout. Then you can use again the UCS command to Name it and save it as a new option. Then type Plan and select current plan. This will align everything to suit. And when you go to paperspace and double click in the viewport depending on your ucs, use the plan command again to match accordingly. I found this way to be the most efficient as I can always switch between my true North and the new saved rotation. So before I xref a new drawing I do UCS world command and then xref. Its tiny bit tricky to explain it in writing, therefore will be making a video about it in the next few days, to help you out! Thanks for the support.

@Civil Tech Thank you! Source I was also wondering about text orientation after the UCS is switched. Is it possible to keep it always horizontal in the layout if we are rotating the plan?

Yes you can once you switch the ucs to the one that matches the layout, when you click on the text you will notice the rotation will no longer be zero. If you switch it back to zero it should be horizontal.

@@CivilTechSource Thank you!

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Hi Kalyani, if you want to separate the elements (Walls, windows etc) into there own drawings, then I would suggest to select them in your current drawing right click->Clipoard->Copy then create a new drawing and right click->clipboard->Paste to Original coordinates (This way your elements will be brought to the exact location you have copied them initially). Then save it Xref-Window (for example) and then delete them from your original drawing. Afterwards use the Xref command and leave the specify point at 0,0,0 as you have already placed you elements (Walls, windows etc) in the right position so there is no need to change your specify point. I hope this helps.

@@CivilTechSource I can see an add-on in the name of your channel in Autocad window. Hi can I download it.?

Hi Mohamed, good eye! This is a CUI that I have created for my day to day work as a civil engineer. It is not available for download at the moment. However, there is a drainage CUI that is available for download from my website.

As long as the xref drawing is layered properly haha

Not sure, if you have deleted the original CAD file with all the Xrefs or you have saved it as in different location. So if you have deleted the autocad file, you can recover the latest by opening the *.bak file in CAD. Now, if you have moved the cad file to somewhere else and have broken the source link, then I would suggest opening the original file and saving it as to your desired location. I hope this will help somehow.

Hi Xander, close! It's Ferdi. Apologies but I am having trouble understanding your query. What do you mean you are trying to locate your Xref by CUI? Maybe post more information on my websites forum with some screenshots?

Hey Naruto (Big fan of the series), there are few ways you can do this. 1) Copy paste the changes into your A1 drawing, the thing is that I am not clear the A1 is the drawing you have done the changes right?and the architect gave you the amended A1(A2) so why don't you just continue working on A2 and xref stuff on that file and SS A1?

Good question! Bind and insert they both do the same thing. The bring in your xref into your main dwg drawing as a block. So let's say you want send it to your friend, if you send just the main dwg file, the xref will not appear cz the link got broken but if you bind or insert it will insert the xref into your main dwg as a block and wherever the main file goes the blocks goes with it. Now the difference between bind and insert: Bind will insert the xref drawing name in front of the actual layer names of your xref where insert will not do that. Hope this helps

@@CivilTechSource ok so only the xref command will not work for attaching ..we have to bind or attach after that for properly working . And one query is that we have to bind or insert every xref into main drawing??suppose we have 5 x ref drawing in our main drawing so we need to bind everyone ??...thanku sir

No, once you xref you create a link between your main drawing and the xref drawing you don't need to do anything else. You only need to bind/attach them if for some reason you need your xref drawing to be in the main drawing. So basically once you use the xref you are good to go, you won't need to do anything more. If you want to send your main drawing out to a client and want to show the xrefs just you the etransmit command. So bind and insert are only used for special occasions were you need your xref drawing to be in the main drawing without copy pasting let's put it this way.

Not sure about AutoCad 2016, but definitely can import pdf in newer versions. Maybe try the autocad forum.

Probably it's your units or the scales that it has been drawn on. Click on the xref in the model space and check the properties.

Either put an xref on its own layer and turn it off or on, or the official way is to unload the xref via the xref panel or I think via right click unload xref

Xclipframe and turn the value t 0. Hope this is what you were looking for?

@@CivilTechSource AAAWWWWEEEESSSSOOMMEEEE! Thank you so much!

Haha, if you notice the first 5 minutes is explaining everything. And the rest is practical.

Hi Fernando, I am sorry that my tutorial did not help you as much as I wished. Maybe we can have a call to walk you through the xrefs? If so, email me at ferdijafar.engineering@gmail.com

Haha, at least did the explanation in 5 minutes. The showing took tiny bit longer.

Thankfully I do not teach, otherwise I would be out of job and probably homeless 😅