xrefs and hotlinks

[Anonymous]

Why is it that a dwg xref'd into a archicad file will remove its created layers after it is removed from a file when a archicad hotlink will not do the same. It seems xref, which is from autocad, has much better control than archicad's own hotlinked method!!! go figure.

[Laszlo Nagy]

Probably because it is very bad practice to have the hotlinked module file have a different attribute set then its host file.
So normally your module file has the same attributes as the host file it is hotlinked into.