Inserting a block deletes points with point style with same block

[Topher5000]

We're using C3D 2013 SP2.  The survey company we use uses point styles to show the blocks.  Say they shoot a catchbasin.  Instead of inserting the block, the point shows up as the block.

I did a field check & needed to insert a missed CB.  When I inserted the block, the other points that were CBs disappeared.  I had to insert the block, copy it the clipboard, undo the insertion & then paste the block in.  It did this on other drawings & other blocks.

Any ideas why it would do this?

[troma]

I bet the block you're using for the catchbasin is different but has the same name as the one they're using in the point style. Did you get asked if you wanted to redefine the block when you inserted yours? If a block is similar but 1000 times smaller, when you redefine it in the drawing it could make all the current ones in the drawing 1000 times smaller, thus disappearing to the naked eye.

[Topher5000]

No, I'm inserting the block that the point style uses & is already in the drawing.

[troma]

I should stop betting.

[Joe-Bouza]

thats funny

[Joe-Bouza]

what happens if you copy a point?

[Topher5000]

It creates a duplicate point & asks if it should be renumbered.  The other points don't disappear though.

[Joe-Bouza]

Right. So give it a number well beyond the numbers in the surveyors database and get a cup of coffee 🙂