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We are using this symbol referencing extensively in our office where you attach a file by workgroup reference without a specific layer clicked, and bring in symbols under resource brower of that file so that we share all the same symbols between files and throught the project. Names of brought-in symbols become italized under current file resource browser to indicate these are shared. But some reason, these symbols are copied into current file instead of brought-in because their names are not italized and whenever we update our source file, these symols do not reflect the change, which we used to do. Does anyone have any idea?

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This is how i understand it, and we use WG refs quite alot: if you are accessing sybmols from the referenced file in the target file through the resource pallette, they will appear italized. They cannot be edited becuase they are in the referenced file. if, though, you are accessing symbols through another file via the resource pallette, they will not appear italized and will be placed in the file you're working in.

if you have a master library of symbols for all to access and use, and everyone know about it, this should work as well as a way of controlling your firm's cad symbols. using WGrefs can work too, but its a little more cumbersome....

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It gets pretty messy.

If you have symbols that are referenced but not italicized, it is almost certain that a local copy of those symbols were made, either because some stuff was copied into the drawing before the wref was performed, or the symbol was 'imported' before the wref was performed. Even though this results in a local copy (no italicizing), it's also listed in the wref, so it cannot be edited. Don't worry about it; the symbol definition should follow what is in the ref'd drawing.

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