Use XCLIP and NCOPY with xrefs

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The X click command can be used to clip out a portion of an X

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ref if that portion is not needed to be shown,

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it prevents extraneous information from cluttering the drawing.

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Here's an example of a civil drawing with an X

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ref of the site plan, including the design contours and existing site contours.

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In some projects,

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the existing contours will be faded back and

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may be visible in the improvement areas.

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If this is the case and you don't want to see the contours in the improvement areas,

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you can remove the existing contours from the

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improvement areas by using the X clip command

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type in

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X clip to get started.

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When prompted to select objects,

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select the external reference that you want to clip,

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then

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choose new boundary,

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select

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invert clip as what we wanna do is clip out the inside

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of the improvement areas.

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And now we'll choose polygonal so that we can pick the points

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that we want.

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So I'll trace

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the outside of where I want this to be clipped.

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Then I'll right click and choose enter

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and just like that, you can see

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the existing contours

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no longer show through the improvement areas.

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Next, let's look at the N copy command.

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This command can be useful if you want to copy an object that exists in an actual X

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ref

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into the current drawing as an independent C

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ad object that can be edited without affecting the X

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ref itself. In

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this example, we can go back to the civil data,

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but we'll turn off the X clips so that we can see

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the existing contours and spot elevations inside of the improvement area.

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So let's go back to X clip

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and will simply choose off

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so that we can now see the spot elevations and the contours inside of

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the improvement area.

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In this example,

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we may want to bring in some of the spot elevations.

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We'll type in N copy

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to get started.

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We'll select

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the spot elevations

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and their markers,

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right? Click, choose enter

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and for the base point,

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let's use

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the intersection

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of one of these markers

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and then the same intersection.

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Now, when we hover over the text,

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you can see that the selection, cycling icon appears

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and we now have text

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and the X reference.

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So these objects have now been placed in the drawing

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in case we need it for further reference,

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it can be moved

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and edited as needed

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to finish this example. Type in X clip again,

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select the existing contours

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and choose on

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from the list of options

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because we had done

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an X clip previously,

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the boundary was already stored.

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Now all we had to do was turn it on

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so that the contours disappeared.

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But notice the spot elevations that we end copied

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are still in the improvement area.

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As you can see the X clip and N copy commands

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provide you with the ability to hide or reuse data.

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When working with

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Xrefs.

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They're both easy to use and can save you a lot of work when using X

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refs.