Jumping doors

[Mats_Knutsson]

We've got a weird situation in our team project. This morning we discovered that quite a few doors have moved a little bit (100-200mm). Almost all structural walls that used to stop at the slab edge now are aligned to the inside of the exterior wall. I have a suspicion that a layercombo where the layer hierarchy of the structural and external walls are the same somehow resetted the wall-wall meeting. In our layercombo for the plan we have different hierarchies (not so in all layer combos).
Also some wall elements have moved about 100 mm.
??? Really annoying and we face two days of work to clean up...
Any clever ideas? We've tried to find mistakes from the team members but can't really find any.

[Erwin Edel]

Perhaps you moved a group and some elements of that group were on a hidden layer at the time. Other option is that you used edge offset on walls, which sometimes results in windows 'moving'.

Finally maybe you moved something with a marquee on another story.

If you want to check your model for mistakes and have a previous backup, you can place old views on a layout and use trace and reference to find mistakes.

[Mats_Knutsson]

Erwin wrote:
Perhaps you moved a group and some elements of that group were on a hidden layer at the time. Other option is that you used edge offset on walls, which sometimes results in windows 'moving'.

Finally maybe you moved something with a marquee on another story.

Nope, we have 7 buildings in the same model and the unwanted moving has occurred in all buildings and they are not grouped.

Erwin wrote:
If you want to check your model for mistakes and have a previous backup, you can place old views on a layout and use trace and reference to find mistakes.

That's how we found out...we traced our earlier dwg's...

We're from now on going to backup by saving .pla's very frequently.

One thing we did just prior to this strange thing was to save the projects as .pla and then everyone left the old team project and started working on the new file. I then removed the .pla-library and replaced it with the regular AC13 BIM server library. However it's the walls that are the bad guys (at least that's what I suspect).