I've got a drawing that has a data referenced pipe network (C3D2014). Everytime the pipe network is syncronized the pipes and structures change their styles back to what I can only assume to be their default. I can not find where to change this style or behavior. Any help would be appreciated.
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I am not aware of a good solution yet. There are some work a round's, but no solution. I've reverted back to 2013 for sheets for now. It's a good thing that 2013 and 2014 dwg's are binary compatible.
What's the procedure to get Autodesk to look into this issue?
"What's the procedure to get Autodesk to look into this issue?"
Buy the next version and hope its fixed, otherwise they are useless. They keep the carrot in front of use....
Our Sanitary Dept. just came across this issue again today.
Has Autodesk found a solution to this issue yet?
We are also using Civil 3D 2014.
We had this issue at my company and being nicknamed the sudo C3D guru I was tasked in finding a solution. Which I have.
The only way to fix this is you HAVE to have the part catalog from the data referenced file in the drawing you are synchronizing. All styles and network layers need to be setup the same way as their original drawing.
Since my company handles a lot of different projects we only data reference to get the other networks in for crossing views in the profile. This means everything goes to our non plot layer and in the style we have it set to the correct layer.
Hope this helps.
Oh and the problem is in the coding which hopefully will be fixed in 2015.
We had the same problem in C3D 2014, our sheet file that data referenced our pipe network structures would revert back to the original style when it was first data referenced after it synchronized.
We just tried it in Civil 3D 2015 beta and it holds the style that is set in the utility base file, doesn't revert back to the style when the data reference occurred in the sheet file after synchronizing. So Civil 3D 2015 fixes this problem.
Interesting note that the SP1 for C3D 2014 says it fixes this issue, but it does not, see below verbage from the SP1 for C3D 2014.:
Our Solution Is for now to external reference the utility base file with the pipe network into your sheet file and label through the external reference with the appropriate Civil 3D labels. Change the external reference utilty base file layer color and linetype to show previous section as existing.
Has there been any updates on this issue, sometimes we are getting the styles changing when we do the "save and re-open" work around.
Thanks
This issue was coordinated with the dev team during the 2015 beta and was fixed; I haven't used the final 2015 release product yet, but I assume it is still fixed. I also requested / highly recommended that they push this fix and a few others worked out in the 2015 beta into a SP for 2014. I have not heard anything more since those discussions.
It looks like the C3D Service Pack 2 fixes this issue. I haven't installed and tested it yet, but they mention it here under the "Primary Issues Resolved by This Service Pack":
http://knowledge.autodesk.com/sites/default/files/file_downloads/AutoCAD_Civil_3D_2014_SP2_enu.htm
Better, late than never, I guess.
I can confirm that.
Technaically, that a work-around not a solution 🙂
The problem remains in 2015. We need a variable like Visretain for xrefs. PLEASE SOON!
I also can confirm it is still an issue in 2015 and the visretain variable idea is a great a great thought.
Well I finally had a chance to install 2014 SP2 and it fixes half of the problem. The styles do not revert on syncronization, but all pipes and structures revert to the layer that they were brought in on.
A VISRETAIN type variable would be amazing. Oh well. Maybe 2015 SP1.
To the best of my knowledge, this is fixed in 2015 SP1
I've not had this problem with C3D 2015 SP1. I'm not sure if it was fixed with the release of 2014 SP2 or initial release of 2015, but it seems to be working the way I'd expect it too, now.
i'm running c3d 2015 with sp1 and it still happens. the style changes and the label changes.
it was created in a previous version, 2010 if i'm not mistaken and it never happened before in that version. i think it has happened recently on a 2015 drawing though.
I am using 2015 SP1 and this is happening. Very troubling indeed. Part of the reason we are using pipe networks is to eliminate the need for repetitive drafting. This is adding a significant amount of it right back.
Autodesk should provide a solution to this using a visretain type of variable. Here's why. If I have an alignment with 12 plan and profile sheets, but I set up the plan and profile sheets such that a new drawing was created for every 3 sheets, then I have 4 drawings that are all showing the same network, but I could easily and undesireably have 4 different styles in my plan set. The only sensible solution is have the drawing in which the pipe network data was created control the styling of the pipes and structures. Labels are tricky as well, but they don't seem to change during synchs, so it is easier to manage.
Please fix this Autodesk!!!