Embed an object into your IntelliCAD drawing when you want to keep all the data you work with in one file or if you want to transfer the file to other computers. You can embed data from programs that support object linking and embedding.
For example, if you want to distribute data about a department's computer equipment along with an IntelliCAD drawing of the department's floor plan, you can embed a Microsoft® Excel spreadsheet into the floor plan.
When you embed data from another program, IntelliCAD becomes the container for that data. The object embedded in the IntelliCAD drawing becomes part of the IntelliCAD file. When you edit the data, you open its program from within the IntelliCAD drawing.
Any changes you make to the embedded data exist only in the IntelliCAD drawing, so it is not necessary to keep that data in a separate file. If the data does exist in a separate file, the original file does not change when you modify the embedded object in IntelliCAD. Also, changes to the original file do not affect the embedded object in the IntelliCAD drawing.
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