Has anyone found a solution to the problem of Structures not masking the pipes in plan when the Network is a Dref? In the source drawing, all structures mask the pipes just as they should. But in every one of my production drawings the pipes all show inside the structure symbol and the plan checker is having a field day with this. Won't even take the plans in until we get rid of the lines within the symbols.
I realize it is a chore, but when reading your question my first and only thought was -> if you don't know who do?
Bill
BTW, next time you have the problem with this Dude, I still have Luigi's phone number somewhere.
Send a file my way if you want. I have never had this issue w/ drfe'd stc's.
Remember no longer at Conklin...
jfmayo at vannoteharvey dot com
John Mayo
Thanks, John, project much too big to send. What I have found though, after rethinking what I posted earlier about it being this way in multiple versions, is that I'm still using a DWT from 2010 that I have just migrated for use with each release. So I created a new manhole style and applied it to 2 of the 8 structures displayed in this one drawing. I saved, closed reopened, and ALL of the manholes displayed correctly. I thne realized that I had left the drawing in modelspace through a PS viewport, but my sheets are most always kept in paperspace. So I chnaged to PS, saved, closed, reopened, and BAM, the structures with the original style were all displaying the pipes, whereas the 2 I had changed to use the new style are displaying with the pipes masked.
I will now edit 2 drawings to use this new style and see how they perform the next few days. Hopefully this will be the solution, although I don't look forward to going through my templates to edit all of structure styles and the change the command & parts list settings to use them.
Some good thinking there. 😉
I have been recreating templates for most releases. New file, importstyles and settings, assign object layers.
John Mayo
Bah, good idea but only worked a handful of times before going back to the same "let's show the pipes in a structure even when it's masked, but only when the drawing is opened in Paperspace".
Going through and updating the blocks to include wipeouts now. Someday I may actually figure this out, or it may just start working with a SP or new release.