External reference
This article is about nesting part of content from external document inside another document. It differs from Cross-reference for meaning as Cross-reference.
History
Early idea of master copy and occurrences was applied in 1963 in a computer program Sketchpad.[1]
External reference drawings were introduced in CAD programs at the second half of the 80's years of 20th century. They were implemented in Intergraph's Interactive Graphics Design System (IGDS) CAD programs described in Intergraph Standard File Formats.[2] Most popular became with Autodesk Autocad.
In 2005, a similar approach was introduced in DITA where content of documents can be reused across multiple publications. Fragments of content within topics can be reused through the use of content references (conref or conkeyref), a transclusion mechanism.
Using
An external reference (xRef) is a kind of block in that it is stored in the current drawing's block library. However, unlike a block, the objects associated with an xref definition are not stored in the current drawing; they are stored in another drawing file. When you create an xref, the entire contents of this other file are imported as a block.
References
- ISFF Specification - Intergraph Standard File Formats (Element Structure)
- External Reference Drawings - Bentley MicroStation online help
- Referenced Drawings - Autodesk Knowledge Network
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- ↑ Sutherland, Ivan E. (1963). "Sketchpad". Proceedings of the May 21-23, 1963, spring joint computer conference on - AFIPS '63 (Spring). New York, New York, USA: ACM Press. doi:10.1145/1461551.1461591.
- ↑ "Intergraph Standard File Formats (Element Structure)". dgnlib.maptools.org. Retrieved 2021-01-07.
