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- [Instructor] Now, let's talk a little bit more

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about external content.

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So if we go back up to file and we go to external content

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we have a few different options.

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So we can place a hot link

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and then we can also place an external drawing

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as well as an Xref.

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So what we're going to do

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is we're going to place an Xref of a survey.

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So let's create a new worksheet

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so go over to your navigator and then just right click

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on the worksheet

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and then say new independent worksheet.

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And so we'll call this S-01 and we'll just call it survey.

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And so let's go to file, external content, attach Xref.

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And so we'll browse for the Xref.

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And so let's go to Xref for the survey.

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So I have a survey here.

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And so when you're placing an Xref

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it can either be a DWG or a DXF.

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And so let's place that.

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And so you have a couple different options here.

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So you have the reference type,

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if it's an attachment or if it's an overlay,

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and then you have the insertion point

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if you want to specify that on screen

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or if you want to specify it here yourself.

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We'll leave it at specify on screen.

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So you also have the ability to identify

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the anchor point of the drawing that you're placing.

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So we're going to use the drawing's own origin,

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Because it is a survey

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typically it's going to be placed in a state plane location

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so it's going to be relative

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to a known position based on the survey.

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And then we have a translator.

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And we'll get into this more later,

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there's a few different translators that are available.

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So let's just use the editable import translator

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and we're going to attach that drawing.

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And so I'm going to locate where I want to put it.

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And this gives me the option

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of identifying layers that I want to be visible

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or layers that I don't want to bring in the file.

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So we're just going to bring them all in.

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And so give it a sec.

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And because this is in state plane

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or it's in a survey position

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it's not necessarily going to be close to the origin.

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So if you can see it's just a little bit away.

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And so let's zoom in on that.

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And so we have a survey.

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And so the interesting part about an Xref

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is it comes in a little bit differently.

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So you have the lines that are already there.

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And so this is a good point

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for you to be able to start drawing over

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or gathering information from a drawing.

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So let's look at a couple different other options

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within the external content.

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So if you go back to file, external content,

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you can also place a hot link.

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So let's just click on that.

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And so hot links are three dimensional information

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or information that's coming from a three-dimensional file.

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So what I did is I just select the module

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that I'm looking for

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and I go to new module and I can either do it from file

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or from a BIMcloud location.

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So we'll just say file.

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And so here, I'm able to bring in

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a few different types of files

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so I can bring in an IFC file, Rhino files,

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and three different or four different Archicad files.

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So if I were to click on a plan file

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I would be able to bring that in and I can select the floor

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or I can also do all the floors or the entire model.

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Since this file doesn't have more information

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on various different floors

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it's only going to allow us to bring it in individually.

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So it's giving us the file name.

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It's giving us which story we're bringing it into.

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And then it's giving us the source location

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of where that file is coming from.

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So if we select that and we can give it a master ID,

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we can select the layer that it's going to go onto.

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And we can adjust where that elevation is.

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Typically, you want to probably bring it

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into the story levels that you're using in the file

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but at some point you might want to keep

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the story structure of the host file intact.

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So if we place that we can place it in the current view

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or its original location.

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And so there's not too much information in this file.

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Give it a second.

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It's just bringing in a north arrow at this point.

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So that's a brief overview of kind of the external content.

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And so one other thing to note is that

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each of these different file formats

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or external content types, you also have a manager.

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So like we have this hot link manager,

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we also have a drawing manager or an Xref manager.

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And so let's look into this real quick.

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So we have the Xref manager and on the Xref manager

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it shows all the different Xrefs that I have in the file.

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So if a DWG has been updated and the file name is the same

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we can reload it.

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We can also detach it or we can attach a new Xref

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and then we can also bind or unload.

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And binding means that we are embedding

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the information into our file

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and it won't be able to be refreshed.

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So that's the external content.