Full integration of imported components

I think I made a similar request before, but because of the very limited search funktions (to put it mildly) I wasn’t able to find it anymore.

Right now, when you import a component, it is not fully integrated into the project but still requires the source component. Only if another alignment is performed, will it be integrated. This however might not be wanted because the geo-referencing gets lost and also the alignment changes slightly.

Requiest: It would be desirable to be able to integrate the imported component without changing it.

For one thing, this saves unneccessary volume and  it is easier to keep track of what’s where and what is essential and what can be deleted. I just lost quite a bit of work because I deleted them in an older project, thinking they are not neccessary any more…

what do you mean by that that it is not fully integrated in the project?

I mean that the component (as in the external file) needs to be present - if I delete it, then it won’t do any calculations any more.