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Select Edit > Insert > Object.
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On the Insert Object dialog, select Create From File.
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In the File box, type the name and directory path of the document that you want to include in your drawing, or select Browse to find and choose the file.
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If you want to link this object to your drawing, select the Link box. If you want to embed the object, do not select this option.
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Select OK.
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Click the pointer, which now includes a box the size of the object at its end, at the location in the drawing where you want to insert the object.
Do not use these procedures to change a symbol file. If you attempt to update, change, break, or open the symbol source file, serious problems result in the drawing. Use Catalog Manager to change or update symbols.
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Linked or embedded files are not transferred by Workshare. You must transfer those files manually, and they should be located in the same directory as the drawing files.
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You can move the object at any time later. See Move an Item with the Select Tool or Move an Item Using the Move Button.
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You can place an object on the Clipboard and then embed it by using Edit > Paste Special. See Paste an Item with a Different Format.
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You can embed an OLE object, such as a Microsoft Word document or Microsoft Excel workbook, by dragging the file from Windows into a drawing, too. With this procedure, you can create a link only to an entire document; you cannot link to a selection in a document.
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You can link an OLE by dragging a document from the Windows environment onto the drawing also. You must press the CTRL + SHIFT keys while dragging to link the information. If you do not press these keys, the information is embedded.
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OLE objects are enclosed by a SmartFrame with a border. If you are saving a drawing to AutoCAD and you want to hide the border in the exported drawing, you must assign a value of 0 to the pidacad.dwg seed file FRAME variable. See under Notes in Save a Drawing in a Different Format).
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If you insert a document into the drawing, the terminators, spaces, text, and styles appear in paper units relative to the source document. This behavior can cause the dimensions and text to appear very large or small in the drawing.
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The software creates automatic links by default. An automatic update occurs when the drawing is opened: if a change is made to the source document and the drawing is already open, the change does not appear in the drawing until it is closed and re-opened. The software updates manual links only at the time you indicate. To change the way the software updates links, select Edit > Links and specify automatic or manual update mode for each link.
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In the Description box in the Properties window, you can type an URL with http syntax to link documents to an Internet item. Select the ellipses to open the Description dialog.