lineweight problem in Autocad Civil 3D 2014

[Anonymous]

I have a drawing where I change the Lineweight to be 0.60mm. (The file is a reference). When I reload the reference it looks right then I do a REGENALL and it changes back to the original lineweight default.

The weird thing is that it does this on 3 computers in my office but on certain computers using the same Autocad Civil 3D 2014 it works fine.

Any Ideas on how to fix this??

[Citadel2012]

Does the line plot at the correct weight? The issue could be the product of a visual style.

[Anonymous]

The lineweight does not plot correctly as well.

[wfberry]

Check out VISRETAIN, you may be overriding the xref in the current drawing.

Bill

[Anonymous]

VISRETAIN is set to 1 in both drawings.

[wfberry]

But is the lineweight set to something different in your current drawing for that layer?

Bill

[Anonymous]

The lineweight is not set to anything different. The lineweight in both drawings are set the same. Like I said before it will show correctly sometimes, but for some reason after the drawing regenerates or if I do a REGENALL it reverts back to a default lineweight.

[Cadguru42]

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@Anonymous wrote:

I have a drawing where I change the Lineweight to be 0.60mm. (The file is a reference). When I reload the reference it looks right then I do a REGENALL and it changes back to the original lineweight default.

The weird thing is that it does this on 3 computers in my office but on certain computers using the same Autocad Civil 3D 2014 it works fine.

Any Ideas on how to fix this??

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Is this part of a profile view? There is a known bug where line weights in profile view objects won't work correctly in 2014 as any custom workspace will become corrupted and cause the profile view objects to no longer display line weights. 

[Anonymous]

The lines are in Plan view only.

[Citadel2012]

I know this might just be avoiding the issue at hand, but converting all linework to plylines and changing the global widths in the referenced file would be a simple workaround. 

[Anonymous]

I am aware of a couple of workarounds that I can do, but I thought there might be a quick fix for this issue as to avoid this problem in the future.

[cwitzel]

For whatever strange reason I have seen this happen in the past.   Try moving the Xref to a layer other than 0.  We make a layer called XREF and place the xrefs there.  This seems to help solve the problem.  Must have something to do with Object Layers etc.  Very annoying though.

Thanks,

Conan Witzel

[Anonymous]

That worked!!! Thanks for all the help!!!

[Cadguru42]

I haven't run into this problem until just a few minutes ago. Strange that until I was aware of someone else having XREF line weights not working did it start affecting me. What's even more bizarre is that I have three XREFs in this drawing and only one of them has the line weight problem. 

We always put XREFs on layer 0, so I guess we'll have to change that. 😞

[cwitzel]

I should also add that it also affects plotsyles.  We use styles rather than color tables.  I know I have seen it with parcels and I think one other obejct that I can't remember.

Thanks,

Conan Witzel

[Cadguru42]

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@Anonymous wrote:

I should also add that it also affects plotsyles.  We use styles rather than color tables.  I know I have seen it with parcels and I think one other obejct that I can't remember.

Thanks,

Conan Witzel

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We don't use named plot styles, so that shouldn't be an issue for us. Another oddity about this is that when I moved the XREFs to their own layer the line weights came on for the problem XREF, but it's not consistant and looks very blocky. What I mean is, on one side of the road the sidewalk has no weight showing while the other side, which is on the exact same layer, looks like a global width was applied to it. 

I typed regen twice and the second time C3D crashed. When I reopened everything it came up working correctly. Gotta love C3D!

[btillett]

Turn your navbar display to on and the profile grid plots correctly with line weights.

It is a bug... There is not logic behind the answer.  Autodesk knows about it and said that it only happens with the downloaded copy of the software, not the boxed copy.  That makes even less sense.  But it works.

[Cadguru42]

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@btillett wrote:

Turn your navbar display to on and the profile grid plots correctly with line weights.

It is a bug... There is not logic behind the answer.  Autodesk knows about it and said that it only happens with the downloaded copy of the software, not the boxed copy.  That makes even less sense.  But it works.

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I was about to add a post showing the screen shot below, but when I turned on the navbar the line weights worked. WTF?

[Jay_B]

Just had the same issue here with a caveat.

Turning on the Navbar did fix the lineweight problem of the Pipe Network object in pfl views in our case.

But, it's the circular reference of workarounds as the other known issue where the Navbar will plot on occasion appeared.

8 Viewports on sheet = 8 plotted Navbars. 

[Cadguru42]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Just had the same issue here with a caveat.

Turning on the Navbar did fix the lineweight problem of the Pipe Network object in pfl views in our case.

But, it's the circular reference of workarounds as the other known issue where the Navbar will plot on occasion appeared.

8 Viewports on sheet = 8 plotted Navbars. 

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I doubt Autodesk will fix the problem for a while. They've been so bad at fixing bugs that end up causing other broken features that it'll be version 2016 or later before they even look at this.