Subject: Reloading external references

When you open or print a drawing, any external references in the drawing are updated automatically.

If a drawing is already open and a referenced drawing is modified, you can update the current drawing manually to display the latest version of the referenced drawing. The program checks for modified external references every five minutes.

You may also want to reload an external reference that has been unloaded temporarily.

To reload an external reference

1 Do one of the following to choose Xref Manager ():

• On the ribbon, choose Insert > Xref Manager (in Reference).

• On the menu, choose Insert > Xref Manager.

• On the Tools toolbar, click the Xref Manager tool.

• Type xref and then press Enter.

• On the status bar, click Manage Xrefs, which displays when external references are linked to the drawing.

2 Select the external reference to reload.

3 Click Reload.

Use a shortcut.
By default, when an external reference is modified outside of CADdirect, a notification appears in a balloon message and in the Event Log. Click Reload in the balloon message to reload the external reference. To turn off these notifications, set the XREFNOTIFY system variable to 0; to turn on notifications, set it to 2. To change how often the program checks for modified external references, set the number of minutes using the XNOTIFYTIME system variable.

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