CompuServe Messages

Peter – I hate to tell you this, but you're going to have some dissent on your hands. I for one am not interested in any further bastardization of External references. They were designed as a means of including a canonical representation of one drawing, in another. I will instead campaign for another type of "externally-defined thing" (I can't be more specific than that, sorry), that will bring all of the functionality that you seek to have in external references, without making them so complicated that nobody but you and Mark Burns will know what to do with them. I'm not interested in making AutoCAD more complex for the sake of complexity alone. What you and Burns want from external references conflicts with their very essence (a canonical representation of an external drawing). I don't want to start a war or raging debate on this here, but I'm telling you now that I will veheminently oppose any futher hack jobs on this feature, in favor of a more rational alternative. -TonyT.