Spanning Pipe Labels, Drefs

[Anonymous]

I've come across an issue that I can't seem to resolve, yet I can duplicate
it.

2009 version 2

Create a data shortcut for my Storm Drain system, Dref this into numerous
sheets, everything seems to work well with 2 exceptions.

First, I can workaround. No matter what I do I cannot get the overide
alignment to stick with the network. When creating the reference the option
is given to use another reference alignment, which I choose the alignment
that the current sheet is for. All is good until I save, close, reopen the
sheet drawing. All of the pipe network's reference alignments are reset to
what the source network uses. To get around this, changing each structure's
reference alignment to the one I need seems to work, but is a real PITA.

Second, spanning labels lose their span-ability in plan view only on my
dref'ed network. The profile span label for the same section works fine, and
I can label the plan view but a save, close, reopen gives me this in the
Event viewer:

Description: Spanning label modified. Network part not found in span or not
contiguous

This same section is labelled, and it stays put, in the source drawing. It
is just the plan view of the dref'ed network that fails to keep it. The only
work around is to explode the label.

Is anyone else seeing this behaviour?

Thanks,
Jeff

[tshulbert]

We are having the same issue in 2013.

[Jeff_M]

Both issues or just one? The first, I believe, is "as designed". The second I thought was fixed long ago but honestly haven't checked it for a while.

[tshulbert]

Just dropping the reference stations.  We found Multiply Owned objects are causing the issues.