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Fig. 10.11 Example - placing a raster fi le in a drawing

N o t e s

As will be seen from the Insert drop-down menu and the dialogs which
can be opened from the menu, a variety of different types of images can
be inserted into an AutoCAD drawing. Some examples are:

External References (Xrefs) - If a drawing is inserted into another
drawing as an external reference, any changes made in the original
xref drawing are automatically refl ected in the drawing into which the
xref has been inserted. See later in this chapter.

Field - A click on the name brings up the Field dialog. Practise
inserting various categories of fi eld names from the dialog.

Layout - A wizard appears allowing new layouts to be created and
saved for new templates if required.

3D Studio - allows the insertion of images constructed in the Autodesk
software 3D Studio from fi les with the format *.3ds .

External references (Xrefs)

If a drawing is inserted into another drawing as an external reference, any
changes made in the original Xref drawing subsequent to its being inserted
are automatically refl ected in the drawing into which the Xref has been
inserted.