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About the Advanced Reference Configuration User Interface
The Advanced Reference Configuration dialog box that opens when you click Advanced reference configuration on the Paste Special dialog box allows you to paste a feature by mapping references of the original feature to the new references. It allows you to use the original or new references within the same model or use new references when the copied feature is pasted across models. You can only retain or change the references of the copied instances and not their settings or dimensions through the Advanced Reference Configuration dialog box.
The Advanced Reference Configuration dialog box contains the following options:
References of original features collector—Displays external references of the original feature. You can select a reference to replace it with a new one. You can also choose to preserve an original reference.
Use original reference check box—Indicates whether you want to keep an original reference or select a new reference. Clear this option if you want to replace an original reference with a new one. By default, this check box is not selected. The selected reference is listed in the collector below the Use original reference check box. To remove the listed item, right-click the collector and click Remove. To obtain information about the selected item, right-click the collector and click Information.
 
* If you leave this collector empty, then the pasted feature that uses this reference fails, and the feature-creation tool opens to resolve the reference.
Used by—Lists the features that use the selected reference.
For a set of features that is copied and pasted across models, the Advanced Reference Configuration dialog box opens for individual external references. You must specify the external references of each copied feature in the feature set.
For multiple features that are dimension-dependent, the Advanced Reference Configuration dialog box lists all the references.
You are not prompted to specify references that are internal to the set of features. For example, when an extruded feature with embedded datums is copied and pasted across models, you can only specify the references of the embedded datums and not the references of the extrude feature.