After attaching or overlaying an xref, you can define a clipping boundary to display only a portion of the xref.
Clipping an xref is often useful when you want to:
- Work with a specific part of a large architectural floor plan
- Enlarge a specific part of a building systems drawing (for example, to show a detailed layout in a mechanical or electrical room)
- Lay out construction documents
- Improve drawing performance because you load only a part of the xref drawing
To clip an xref
- Click
. - Select a reference.
- At the prompt, select New Boundary by pressing Enter.
- Select a rectangular or polygonal clipping boundary, and then specify the corners or vertices of the boundary.
The software clips the image based on the area that you specified, and hides the portion of the xref outside the clipping boundary.
Clipping an xref
Clipping an xref