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]

I had a few markers lose their ReferToDrawing checks. After relaunching AC they were back to normal. Not a fix, just information.

Laura wrote:
THIS IS MAJOR

Quite. The worst issues IMO are things changing on their own (so you mustn't stop watching them, yet you have to do other things), wrong stuff that looks right (thereby tricking you into not watching them), and bugs that show up in the deliverables (making me, my software, and my vendor look like amateurs). This marker behavior hits the trifecta. Killer.

[Laura Yanoviak]

Well, the latest hotfix (987) does not seem to address this.

I still cannot get any Markers to reference Views, and they remain "Undefined". I can get them to reference Drawings if the layout book resides within the model file, but in our office this practice is the exception. I can't be sure if this is isolated to migrated files, as that is all we are working with at this time.

[Anonymous]

I am curious what section markers are being used that are having these problems. I had some issues initially when I was working with my AC 9 template and ended up setting up new section elevation markers that were based on the new library parts. I have not had any problems since. I wonder if there is any consistency as to what is causing the problems.

[Anonymous]

Anyone making progress fixing the auto-referencing errors?

One of our projects has started to place random reference numbers in the detail markers. These detail markers are placed in section/elevation windows or plan windows. The only way we have been able to get them to reference correctly is to place a new detail marker, copy the contents of the original detail into this new detail window, create a new quickview, and place this onto the layout sheet. This references correctly for now but we wonder for how long.

We are using a custom marker object, but changing to a standard V10 marker does not fix the problem.

Version AC10 1010 USA

[TomWaltz]

I cannot say I've seen this problem in AC10 at all (layout in the same PLN or layout in a separate PLN)