Not sure if this is something that has been going on a while, if it is a design flaw, or if it just a workflow thing that we should be more mindful of, but here goes:
1. I data reference an alignment into a drawing.
2. I later data reference in a profile that was created from and associated with that alignment.
In this scenario, Civil 3D creates a duplicate alignment for the profile i.e., the orginal alignment is in prospetor as 'Alignment A' and the profile being data referenced in creates a 'Alignemnt A (1)' duplicate and associates itself with it.
This also happens if I bring in a different profile created from the same alignment IF the alignment was already present as a data reference in the drawing.
This seems wrong.
It doesn't do any of this if I data reference the profile in first...
Weird or just me?
Thanks!
I have seen duplicate references show up on two separate projects now. I thought the first project was just user error, but now it has happened again. You may be onto something with the profiles, but the one proejct I had this happen on did not have profiles in the drawing.
I'm d-reffing multiple alignments & profiles. Haven't seen a problem with them yet.
Mark Green
Working on Civil 3D in Canada
We had problems with duplicating pipe networks. Had to tell everyone not to copy a structure! Also, I think frozen or locked layers may have been the problem.
Mark Green
Working on Civil 3D in Canada
Good to hear about the probable cause of the duplicates: copying civil 3d objects and labels from other drawings. However what I'm running into along this is that my previously-created profile views are referencing the duplicate versions of the alignment references--the ones with "(1)" at the end of the name.
To try and resolve, I delete the original, then try to rename the duplicate to remove the "(1)", but it won't allow it as if the original is still in the drawing (even though I just deleted it).