Section/Elevation tool loses auto-referencing

[Brad Elliott]

With encouragement from Matthew who also had this problem.

I had a case where all my Section/Elevations defaulted to a single section. IE, every section/elevation in my plan referenced detail 1/302. I am not sure how it occurred. To fix it you have to select refer to drawing in the info box and browse to the correct section. This is also not exactly simple because you have to select it in the layout. My biggest concern is that there was no indication of the error occurring. Just bad referencing on the set I sent out to my engineer. Is anyone else having this problem? Do you have any short cuts on how to re-link?

[James Murray]

Brad wrote:
Is anyone else having this problem?

Of course not! I only have:

• Markers slip to 'Undefined' by themselves.

• Checking 'Refer to Drawing' has no effect. And then you zoom in on the marker, and box unchecks itself!

• Once they slip, No RtD fix-attempt works correctly without the use of Browse... and the marvelous RtD dialog box. That is, switch the reference and switch it back.

IOW, it's pretty messed up.

[Anonymous]

My version of the problem is section markers randomly referring to the wrong drawing.

One elevation was referring to the abbreviations on the title sheet. In my case the problem was so persistent (no amount of browsing, moving etc. seemed to work) that I had to make a separate copy of the file, toss the model data, and replace (not just relink) the drawings from the original model.

Naturally I am concerned that, after going through all this relinking, the markers are going to start going off again.

[Djordje]

I had sections changing their markers, linetype, and continuitu all on their own ...

At the end of the day, the elevations turned to Section state and no changing of parameters and settings could bring them back.

So I shut down. I don't know enough Hungarian swearwords, but Serbian ones suffice ...

Nasty.

Who screwed up the section markers in 966 ?!?!?!

[Djordje]

I had sections changing their markers, linetype, and continuitu all on their own ...

At the end of the day, the elevations turned to Section state and no changing of parameters and settings could bring them back.

So I shut down. I don't know enough Hungarian swearwords, but Serbian ones suffice ...

Nasty.

Who screwed up the section markers in 966 ?!?!?!

[Rakela Raul]

thx god i found this tread......i was going crazy !!!! pls fix

[Laura Yanoviak]

I can't get anything to work:

When using a separate Layout Book, the Markers stay 'Undefined' and there is no way to reset (no, not even by using 'Browse...')

I did a test using Views and Layouts within the same file -- the Marker dialog says that it is referencing the placed drawing, but the Marker as it appears in plan (on the Layout) does not reflect this.

THIS IS MAJOR -- THIS MUST BE FIXED IMMEDIATELY!!! GS PLEASE HELP!!!

[Anonymous]

THanks again to all for the continued "Beta" work. PLease inform us when it safe to "play".

[Djordje]

Djordje wrote:
At the end of the day, the elevations turned to Section state and no changing of parameters and settings could bring them back.

This was my bad.

The Model view setting was the culprit - it should always be on Settings, nothing else.

Why would we want something to look different than what we have set it to is beyond me ...

[Rakela Raul]

My version of the problem is section markers randomly referring to the wrong drawing.

same here,...the "3 click method" to link markers + views + refer to dwg is a good "on screen" shortcut ....
but not sure if it is the software or me..too many sections not used, deletion of sections but the view selected still on layout, dont remember which section goes with which view, etc...i think is me !!