AutoCAD How to Clip or Trim Xrefs (external references) and Blocks - 2 Minute Tuesday

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AutoCAD How to Clip or Trim Xrefs (external references) and Blocks - 2 Minute Tuesday

Brandon here back with another new video!

Today I've got a super helpful tip for you all. We take a look at a couple quick and easy ways to clip or trim xrefs in autocad, making it easy to hide unwanted data and objects quickly.

This can help keep your drawing clean and even run faster and reduce file size!

Oh and let me know what autocad tip, trick or tutorial you'd like to see in the next one down below!

Cheers and thanks for watching

Timestamps:
0:00 - 1:38 Intro and INTO THE AM
1:39 - 9:23 Exporting Attributes
9:23 - 10:17 Outro

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[RotoHeatSully]

Currently taking a AutoCAD course and your videos are saving me. Plan on taking your course once I have completed this one I am taking. Very appreciative of your videos, thank you!

[Cadintentions]

Thank you all for watching, hope you liked this one!!!

[pjohnston]

This is helpful. But can you actually 'delete' or as you said "remove" and not just "hide" what you have clipped out, so that when I link or reference this into another file it doesn't bring this 'extraneous' info that I've clipped out with it? Thank you.

[gusdiez]

Just want to say thanks so much for all your videos, I had to learn AutoCAD for a project and you saved my a** :) Great way of explaining things, keep it up!

[johnc.]

Actually came looking for something else, but I have very rarely ever used xRef in AutoCAD. Most places don't want to drawings xRefed. Mostly because a change here causes a change in who knows what drawing and do you want that change there too. Interesting stuff though. I might import something for pictorial purposes and exploded it so I can edit the geometry.

[PuddingCoPuddingPudding]

Super helpful! GBU man. Thanks for the tutorial.

[danarditi]

It is very important to take into account a clip or xclip is only a mask. if you do a dataextraction from the drawing you will get ALL the information including from items you do not see

[TRoe]

Great video, thanks for this information.

[benzero]

thank you very much.. thanks to you, I found the command I was looking for.
👍👏

[LightShadow]

Hi . Is there a way to collapse it ? I mean can you trim the plan and leave only what is visible when the clip is active ?

[TuneHead]

P. Johnson asks a question that I believe is one everyone would like to know.
"But can you actually 'delete' or as you said "remove" and not just "hide" what you have clipped out, so that when I link or reference this into another file it doesn't bring this 'extraneous' info that I've clipped out with it?" Very interested in getting an answer or another way of going a "DELETE all data outside a defined boundary"....

[laxmanmaharjan]

thats ausome sir, bt can we do job on remaining part only after clpping?

[Jag-yizx]

Is there a way to create a composite file with lots of xref clips to be how we see the Clipped view?

[dennisa.f.]

Buenas de nuevo, se puede explotar estas referencias y que solo el
dibujo del clip de la refencia quede intacta y no el resto del dibujo
de la refenencia??

[jeffreyfeingold]

Excellent, thank you. But how can I do two or more clips from a single drawing? After I take the first one the rest of the drawing is gone and I cannot take a clip from another part of the same drawing. Is there a way?

[haoyue]

Very informative! Thanks a lot! Is there a way to edit or trim the block from content browser in AutoCAD architecture? I have tried xclip but it is ineligible for clipping, any help will be appreciated! Thanks!

[Travispater]

Is there a way to collapse the Trim, removing everything hidden?

[edwardhuapaya]

se puede explotar estas referencias o bloques y que solo el
dibujo del clip de la refencia quede intacta y no el resto del dibujo
de la refenencia??

[arjayballester]

Hello, Good day. I'm having a trouble on my CAD 3d Design. It seem's that everytime that i put the view om Hidden it will hang for about a minute and then some of my drawings disappear.

[saleemalshibani]

HOW TO SOLVE UNRECONICELED LAYERS
. PLEASE HELP ME