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progeCAD Professional manual The low-cost alternative to AutoCAD
- Introduction
- Getting started
- Working with drawings
- Creating a new drawing
- Opening a drawing
- Setting up a drawing
- Setting the current layer
- Layer Properties Manager
- Creating and naming layers
- Locking and unlocking layers
- Setting the current entity color
- Setting the current linetype
- Setting the linetype scale
- Setting the current lineweight
- Setting the current print style
- Setting drawing units
- Understanding scale factors
- Setting the text height
- Setting the drawing limits
- Working with colors
- Using the grid, snap alignment and cursor restriction
- Using entity snaps
- Setting entity snaps
- Nearest Snap tool
- Endpoint Snap tool
- Midpoint Snap tool
- Center Snap tool
- Perpendicular Snap tool
- Tangent Snap tool
- Quadrant Snap tool
- Insertion Point Snap tool
- Point Snap tool
- Mid between two point Snap tool
- Intersection Snap tool
- Apparent Intersection Snap tool
- Quick Snap command
- Clear Entity Snaps tool
- Using fly-over snapping
- Etrack Snap tracking
- Polar Snap tracking
- Saving your drawing
- Creating simple entities
- Creating complex entities
- Viewing your drawing
- Working with coordinates
- Working with the progeCAD Explorer
- Using the progeCAD Explorer
- Organizing information on layers
- Working with linetypes
- Working with text fonts and styles
- Working with coordinate systems
- Using named views
- Working with blocks and external references
- Working with dimension styles
- Getting drawing information
- Modifying entities
- Working with text
- Dimensioning your drawing
- Working with blocks
- Working with attributes
- Working with external references
- iCADLib
- Printing drawings
- Getting started printing
- Defining layouts for printing
- Customizing print options
- Printing or plotting your drawing
- Print a PDF or JPG file
- Print a Viewport with hidden lines or shaded mode
- Drawing in three dimensions
- Render
- O2C Converter
- Google Earth
- Working with other programs
- Saving and viewing snapshots
- Using data from other programs in progeCAD drawings
- Using progeCAD data in other programs
- Using progeCAD with the Internet
- Other programs
- Image
- Customizing progeCAD
- Setting and changing options
- Customizing menus
- Customizing toolbars
- Customizing the keyboard
- Creating aliases
- Customizing entities
- Creating and replaying scripts
- Programming progeCAD
- Using a digitizer tablet
- Appendix
- Understanding AutoCAD compatibility
- Using enhanced AutoCAD commands in progeCAD
- Using additional selection sets
- Using additional progeCAD commands
- Recognizing subtle command differences
- Identifying what does not display
- Supporting AutoCAD customization
- Understanding menu compatibility
- Importing and exporting customization files
- Programming progeCAD
- progeCAD-AutoCAD list of terms
- Understanding AutoCAD compatibility
- Glossary
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- Working with external references
Changing the path for external references
If the file associated with an external reference is moved to a different directory or renamed, the program displays a message indicating that it cannot load the external reference. You can re-establish the link to the file by doing any of the following:
Change the path for the external reference.
Specify additional directories for progeCAD to search. This is especially helpful if you have several external references that have moved to a new directory.
To change the path for a single external reference
- Do one of the following:
- Choose Insert > Xref Manager.
- On the Reference toolbar, click the External Reference tool (
).- Type xrm and then press Enter.
- Select the external reference whose path you want to change.
- In Xref Path, do one of the following:
- Enter a new filename or location.
- Click Browse to locate and select the referenced drawing.
progeCAD reloads the specified external reference automatically.
To change the search paths for all external references in the drawing
- Do one of the following:
- Choose Insert > Xref Manager.
- On the Reference toolbar, click the External Reference tool (
).- Type xrm and then press Enter.
- In Additional Xref Search Paths, do one of the following:
- Enter a new directory and its path. Separate multiple paths with a semicolon, for example, c:\My Drawings;d:\My Drawings\Backup.
- Click Browse to locate and select a directory.
progeCAD searches the specified directories; any found external references are reloaded automatically.