Autodesk 12812-051462-9011 User Guide 3 - Page 1712

4 The path and file name of the selected file appears in the XRef Files window. You can add as many files as you like; each one appears in the XRef Files window. 5 Make additional choices in the XRef Scenes dialog if you want. You can affect the display of the XRef scene, making it visible or not, or making objects in the referenced scene appear as bounding boxes. You can ignore the file's lights, cameras, shapes, helpers, or animation. You can control when the file updates, either automatically or on demand. You can have the file enabled or disabled, or you can merge it, severing the XRef relationship and inserting the scene into your current file. You can bind the scene to a Parent object to reposition or animate the XRef scene. To scale, rotate, or reposition an XRef scene: 1 Create an object in your current scene to be the parent object. 2 Choose the XRef scene from the XRef File window. 3 Click Bind (in the Parent group), and then select the parent object by clicking it in the viewport. 4 Transform the parent object. The XRef scene will follow. This works best if both the parent object and the XRef scene have their pivot points positioned near the scene's origin (0,0,0). If the XRef scene was created a large distance from the origin, you can run into a problem. As you scale the parent object, the XRef scene will move away from the center. To counteract this problem, you can create a second parent object centered over the XRef scene. Then select and link the original parent object to the centered parent object. You can then scale the centered parent object and the XRef will not move toward or away from the origin and use the original parent object to move the externally referenced scene. An alternative method for scale problems is to use the Rescale World Units Utility on page 2682 on the original file. XRef Scenes Dialog File menu > XRef Scene > XRef Scenes dialog External References (XRefs) | 6967