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Perform these steps to use boundary objects from an xref to generate spaces
in a host drawing:
1 Set the Bound Spaces property of the desired objects in the xref drawing
to Yes. For instructions, see Setting the Bound Spaces Property for
Boundary Objects on page 2910.
2 Reference the drawing into the host drawing where you want to generate
spaces.
3 Select the xref.
4 In the Properties palette, expand the Advanced category.
5 Verify that the Bound Spaces property is set to Yes.
6 Generate spaces as described in Generating an Associative Space on page
2916.
This mechanism allows you to generate different spaces from multiple instances
of the same xref, because the same referenced geometry can be used as
boundary for spaces in one instance but not in another.
NOTE External references in Project Navigator have different default settings for
the Bound Spaces property: By default, external references attached to elements,
constructs and views from Project Navigator have their Bound Spaces property
set to Yes; external references attached to sheets from Project Navigator have their
Bound Spaces property set to No.
Blocks work according to the same principle, except that the default setting
for the Bound Spaces property of a block is dependent on the Bound Spaces
properties of the objects inside the block. If none the objects inside the block
has its Bound Spaces property set to Yes, then the block’s Bound Spaces
property will be No. If there is at least one object inside the block that has its
Bound Spaces property set to Yes, then the block’ s Bound Spaces property will
be set to Yes, too.
IMPORTANT When you change the Bound Spaces properties of objects inside a
block via the Block Editor, these changes are not automatically updated in the
host drawing upon saving and closing the Block Editor. In order to verify that all
spaces are updated correctly, you must perform a manual update of all affected
spaces, as described in Manually Updating Associative Spaces on page 2930.
When blocks or external references are nested, and a block or external reference
in the hierarchy has its Bound Spaces property set to No, then all blocks and
external references nested in it are not used to bound spaces, even if some of
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