My data referenced alignment linetype will not display at an ltscale less than 2. All other object linetypes using the same linetype display correctly. Any ideas?
Model space or paper space or plot preview?
But if the others are working I guess that's not the problem.
Mark Green
Working on Civil 3D in Canada
Still having this issue I see. It's about time you posted it!!
I saw an issue elsewhere that linetype generation doesn't work for a data shortcut profile from surface. Apparantly it works in the original file, and a layout one works in data shortcut, but the data shortcut profile from surface doesn't.
I'm sure it works in 2011, I think that was a bug in a newer version. I wonder if you are seeing something similar with alignments?
Mark Green
Working on Civil 3D in Canada
TROMA, it's happening in model space and paper space and I checked the alignment style ltscale. It's just so weird that any ltscale above 2 works.
Yeah, Todd, it's happening again. My solution last time was to leave the original entity behind the alignment object and not display the alignment. This is the 5th version of this alignment so it's a pain to edit everything twice - a 600 mile original and (4) 150 mile+/- subsets.
I do not use alignments often, so this may not work. I had the same trouble with what was supposed to be 2D lines.
They were 3D and when the elevation difference was applied to them, they looked lie they were solid lines.
When flattened, they displayed correctly. This could be your trouble, if you have much difference between the beginnign and end of the lines.
Lee
If you have checked the alignment style, the layer that the alignment style is using, and the layer that the alignment is on, to no avail;
if other linework is working and just this one alignment is not;
if you have checked there is not some strange z value involved (although I can't see how it could be with an alignment);
I have a possible workaround for you to try:
Create a polyline instead and turn off your alignment style.
Easiest way to do this IMHO is to use an offset. Use the regular old offset command on your alignment, and it will create a polyline on the same object layer as the alignment, at the offset distance. Then offset the polyline back that same distance. (If you have tight curves, don't offset too much or they could get lost)
Another option: copy the alignment and explode the copy. Pedit lines & curves to a polyline.
Or if it's a short one you could just trace it.
Not a solution to your problem, but a workable way to keep your drawings moving along!
Mark Green
Working on Civil 3D in Canada
Mike, this sounds like a huge project. Would you be willing to let me have a look at the drawings? You can post them to a Dropbox account or Autdesk360 and let me know the link to get them at jeffm AT quuxsoft DOT com Would need both the source and target drawings.
Lee,
Thanks for the suggestion but my struggle is to get the linetype to appear at an ltscale less than 2. It appears fine with ltscale set to 2 and above.
Jeff,
Thanks for the offer but my company won't allow me to post active project data to anyone other than our clients.
It is a large project but building my data with data referencing is working well. Each of my sites (with surface and alignment data) opens in just a few seconds. Oddly, it takes longer for me to save a drawing than to open it.
As I mentioned earlier to Todd, the work-around I'm using is to leave the originating polyline visible and not display the alignment. The problem is, there have now been six versions of this alignment and there very well may be more. Maintaining both elements is a nuisance but do-able.
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