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Re: Inserting an X-ref accurately so it comes in at the
right place

Re: Inserting an X-ref accurately so it comes in at the right place
Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:38:38 +000
You need 2 points that you can aline it to, ie lot corner, block corner, 
intersection, etc.
Align .dwg file to two of these points, tell it to scale, then xref it into 
your set at the same basepoint as the other xref's.
HTH

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<ewan619> wrote in message news:5889906@discussion.autodesk.com...
I am working on a landscape scheme. The base for my design is in the form of 
7 X-refs sent by my client which all load nicely on top of one another when 
overlaid.

They recently sent a tree survey for a small area in dxf format which i 
converted to a dwg and tried to overlay as an x ref. I can't get it to 
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