Share Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn To Detach an Image 2013-04-10 Product Documentation Intermediate View Original Click Insert menu External References.At the Command prompt, enter EXTERNALREFERENCES. In the External References palette, right-click the image name. Click Detach. The image is no longer linked to the drawing file, and all instances of the image are removed from the drawing. Related Tasks To Attach an Image To Attach and Scale an Image File From the Internet To Attach and Scale an Image Related References Commands for Working with Raster Image Files Related Concepts About Detaching Raster Images About Raster Images in Drawings