drawing update

[aharri40]

Good morning, To start off i'm a newbie to this. Been using autocad 2013 on/off the past year and i will have plenty of stupid questions.

First off, I work in the engineering dept and i have been given a project to update all site drawings. I have 3 drawings all in autocad mechanical, 1 of the building itself, the ground floor with the building outline and all machinery/equipment inside it and the mezzanine floor again with the building outline and all machinery/equipment. the question is, If i add or modify any part of the building in the first drawing, how do i get it to update the further 2 drawings including layers. Also should i be using Architect for building drawings? I did not create these drawings from the start and moving bits about to get the best results is fine with me.

Views and opinions much appreciated.

[hwalker · Accepted solution]

Welcome to the Forums

You need to explore using X-REFS.

You make the base plan an xref. Then you insert your base plan (as an xref) into your other drawings.

Now anytime you make a change to your floor plan it will be reflected in the other drawings when you load them up.