How To Xref A Surface In Civil 3d
Doing this is great for visualization purposes but some limitations apply to the use of editing commands with xref data.
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How to xref a surface in civil 3d. This setting specifies that the xrefs remain with the current host drawing labels 1adwg if the current. There is a command setting which controls whether the geometry of reference surfaces is saved in the drawing. When you create references to objects other than surfaces the geometry of those objects is always saved in the drawing. You can change properties of layers.
Many times civil 3d objects are labeled in the host drawing. You can use the xref edit command to make edits to the source drawing. Subsequent changes to the source drawing dynamically change the xref data. For example you can use refedit to select polylines within an xref drawing and.
In the select reference file dialog box navigate to the my civil 3d tutorial data folderselect the drawings labelsalignmentsdwg and labelsparcelsdwgclick open. You cannot change the xref object style or label style. Using a standard autocad xref operation can be a convenient way to bring a surface from one drawing into another drawing. To specify the data reference status for new surface references in toolspace on the settings tab expand the surface commands collection.
Xref drawings are read only so the only thing that you can change are the layer states. Externally referenced data in a surface imposes some usage limitations.