Referencing External Files

[Zdenko]

good morning - looking for a bast practice/method to reference a file into my current design file to verify foundation data. not sure where a command allows me to bring it in as a trace reference? any suggestions from the community?

Operating system used: Mac Intel-based Sonoma 14.4.1

[Barry Kelly · Accepted solution]

You can't reference to an external file (only internal view points, views and layouts).

If the data has been saved as a PDF, you can place that PDF as a drawing and use that - you cn then reference that as a trace if you want to use that method (because it is now placed in your file).

Or you can use the 'Navigator Organiser' to copy layouts from another file into your working file.

You can then trace & reference those layouts.

Just make sure you name those imported layouts appropriately and keep them separate from other layouts, so you know they are from an external source.

Barry.

[Zdenko]

thanks barry looked at nav. organizer and that will work. just need to spend some time with it...

[Tim Ball · Accepted solution]

I use external dwg files from survey companies a lot and find that if I drop them into a worksheet and save the worksheet as a view, it’s then easy to trace reference in

[Zdenko]

thanks tim will have to keep that in mind the next go around...