- [Instructor] We're back in our new officeproposal.DWG file
which is the host drawing
to our external reference drawing,
the landscapingarea.DWG file.
Now in the previous video, I showed you
how to edit an external reference file
and then see how you needed to reload it
in the host drawing.
You can also edit an external reference file in place
while you're in the host drawing.
So I've got the external reference file loaded up
in the host drawing, in the new office proposal drawing.
There it is there.
I click on it like so, and I get the external reference tab
on the ribbon at the top of the screen again.
If I go up here to edit reference in place,
what it does now is it asks me to identify
the reference I want to edit.
So there's my landscaping area there,
automatically select all nested objects
because there might be blocks and other reference files.
So I'll just click on Okay.
And what it does is it says it selects a reference
in a previous release drawing file format.
This is quite important.
Now, as I said in the intro to this course
all of our DWG files are saved back
to a 2013 DWG file format.
That allows anybody going all the way back to AutoCAD 2013,
to access the exercise files
and take this particular course.
If you use use edit reference in place
the file will be updated
to the current release drawing format
which is a 2018 DWG format.
It shouldn't be a problem,
we're on AutoCAD 2023, going back to AutoCAD 2018.
That's a good five versions.
So that's five years worth of AutoCAD.
So most people should have upgraded by now,
but just be aware of that.
So what will happen is when I make the changes
to the landscapingarea.DWG file in place
it'll actually save it to a 2018 DWG file format.
I'll click on Okay there to accept,
and it cannot be checked out for editing.
Why can't it be checked out for editing?
Because it's already open up here.
So I'll just click on Okay.
And what I need to do is I need to close that file
because obviously somebody might be working on it.
Hence it's locked it out.
If I select it again now and now go edit reference in place,
there's the landscaping area, click on Okay.
Again, it prompts me about the DWG file format.
But when I click on Okay this time,
can you see it kind of highlights it in the drawing area?
And I've got all these tools up here now
on the ribbon so I can save changes,
discard changes, et cetera.
I'm going to go back to the home tab
and I'm going to check my layers here, like so
and I'm going to select my hard standing here,
this one here.
Now here's where you've got to be careful.
Do I want this change to go on the hard standing layer?
Or do I need it to go on the hard standing layer
in the x-ref?
You noticed we've got some layers
here with the landscaping area in front of them.
Those are the x-ref layers in the x-ref drawing
in the landscapingarea.DWG file.
So that's the layer I need to be selecting
to work on my x-ref file.
If I put it on this layer, the hard standing layer,
that's the hard standing layer
in the new office proposal drawing.
So it's this hard standing I need to be working with.
It's on a lock layer.
It can't be updated.
That's fine.
It's not a major problem.
I'll close that as well.
But the problem I've got there
is that, that layer is kind of locked out
because I'm doing an in-place reference edit.
So what I might need to do here is
change it in a different way
and actually use that hard standing layer.
It allows me to select that layer.
That's great.
I can pop that there, into this particular file.
So let's use that hard standing layer
from the new office proposal drawing.
It shouldn't make any issue really whatsoever with the file.
It's just a layer.
And that layer is in obviously
our new office proposal drawing
but let's see what happens with that.
Let's just do some hatching.
I'm going to jump to the hatch command on the draw panel
and I'm going to select the angle pattern here, like so.
And when I hover over this, looks a bit leery.
I need to change that scale.
Let's update that scale to say 250 and press Enter.
And then if I hover there, yeah
we've got a nice hatch pattern representing some paving.
So I'll pop that in there, like that.
I'm happy with that hatch.
So I'll just press Enter to close the hatch command.
So I've now edited the external reference file in place.
Those commands and the external reference tab
have disappeared from the ribbon.
They're up here on the end.
Click on the fly out here
and there's all your commands, those extra commands.
So I'm going to save those changes
back to the external reference file
where I've edited it in place.
That'll save back.
All reference edits will be saved.
Click on Okay.
Now can you see that reference
has been edited quite happily.
And if I click there, like so, when I highlight it now
you can see that the hatching
is part of the external reference file.
I'll just hit Escape to deselect.
And that's how you can edit your external reference files
in place when you are working in the host drawing.