Summary: Ability for all external referenced files to be manipulated the same way in the XREF palette.

Description: All types of external references to be manipulated the same way in the XREF palette.

How Used: The benefits would be:

Other dialogs would be found in the same place - i.e. the DATALINK dialog would not be required as it would operate within the XREF palette.

There would be only one attach button which would attach any of the attachable files, rather than attach DWG, attach DWF etc.

Bind / Reload / Unload would apply to all references - i.e. DWG / XLS / DWF etc.

At the moment it is confusing to users why thay can do some things to one type of reference and not another - it�s also confusing why everything is not located in the same place.

Feature Affinity: XREF

Submitted By: Kevin Bell on March 26, 2008