Assembly locations are showing up in plan view. Can't eliminate them?

[doni49]

There is a line (and two big dots) representing EVERY Assembly insert.  And I've been trying to figure out how to hide them.

I thought maybe they were there because of some link/point code.  But I was unable to find and thing.

In the attached screen shot (taken from a print preview), I've circled one of these dots and pointed at one of the lines.  I need to get rid of these.

Any ideas?

[Jeff_M]

These look like point/link markers/lines from a code set. Remember, you may need to check the Default and Uncoded items as well.

[andrewpuller3811]

Don't forget to also check the shape styles.

[GZE]

Go to corridor style turn off assembly insertion point

[doni49]

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@GZE wrote:
Go to corridor style turn off assembly insertion point

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Thanks.  I thought (hoped) it was something like that but I wasn't finding such a setting.  I'll look again tomorrow.

[BrianHailey]

Don't worry about it. Do your corridor model in one drawing (a "model" drawing) and then data reference the surface to the drawing that will be plotted (a "production" drawing).

[doni49]

That would be fine with me. EXCEPT for the fact that the corridor is also providing the line work for the EOP, shoulder and fill line.

[doni49]

(and curb too in another location)

[BrianHailey]

So, you don't mind that they don't display as curves? Or perhaps you put in a really small frequency (i.e. a TON of sections) so it looks like a curve.

Not criticizing, just honestly curious.

[doni49]

Now that you mention it, I hadn't realized that.

[andrewpuller3811]

Can you remove all the detail and leave just the surfaces, profiles, assemblies etc. and post the drawing?

[Jay_B]

The point Brian makes re: the Production vs. Model drawings has other benefits you may not have thought of.

Plotting.

If you set up your work flow to have "overlay" dwgs for geometrics, utilities, alignments etc. and eliminate the corridor completely from the production drawings there will be a noticeable reduction in the time spent publishing or plotting via Sheet Set Manager.

We do many large 100+ sheet plan sets & when plotting the entire plan set to pdf, eliminating all corridor files from the mix makes a huge difference.

First thing we do is detach the corridor file from plan sheets. (Our align.dwg contains the corridor and profile) & we dref alignments, profiles etc. as needed for production.

[doni49]

😞

I just checked and "Assembly Insertion" is already turned off.  I am reluctant to turn the corridor completely off (and draw the features myself) yet because this is just the initial phase.  I need to print the plan set for review so that the "approval people" can decide if they need/want to change things,  i.e. adjust the horizontal and/or vertical alignment, change radii etc.  When I get closer to final, yes I will draw the features manually.

For now, I changed the frequency to every foot when in a curve.  But if I don't get rid of these lines and dots, Nothing will be visible anyway now that I've got the frequency set so high.  I'll continue hunting for the right code.  I'm using OOTB assemblies ("BasicLane", "ShoulderVerticalSubbase" & "BasicSideSlopeCutDitch").

[Jay_B · Accepted solution]

Have you tried setting all individual styles within the code set style in use to "no_Display"?

Go through  one by one for all Link, Point & Shape codes on the codes tab within Corridor Properties.

[doni49]

No I hadn't tried that.  I didn't want to cause new probs with the style.  But I think I'll copy the codeset style, turn off everything and then turn on one code at a time until I find it.

That makes sense.

[Jay_B]

You can if you want but you can just flip back & forth to trouble shoot, no need to create a new style for but do whatever your comfortable with.

[doni49]

Thanks for all the advice everyone.  I copied my code set style and proceeded to turn off the display of the various links.  As I found one that caused something to turn off that I did not want to see, I switched back to the main code set style and turned off that feature.  Then went back to my copy and turned off some more.

I eventually got to the point where most of the links were off.  But my feature lines were still being displayed.  So I tried turning off ALL LINKS and ALL points.

It all looks good.  I still have my EOP, shoulder & fill lines.  So I guess I have no idea where those come from (as I said in the past, my boss has me scheduled for a C3D training class in May but in the meantime, I'm doing the best I can to do what I need to do).

Oh and I increased the frequency in curves to .5 feet.  It actually looks like a decent curve until I actually draw in arcs later.  🙂

[Jay_B]

Glad to hear you found it. You may want to order additional ram if this is going to be your workflow though.

"Oh and I increased the frequency in curves to .5 feet.  It actually looks like a decent curve until I actually draw in arcs later."

On large projects it will slow things to a crawl and you'll quickly realize it's very cumbersome to sort through them in section editor etc. when hunting down the meaningful frequencies such as driveways, curb returns etc.

[doni49]

Thanks for the advice.  I'll take that under consideration in the future, but such things won't be an issue on this project as there are NO driveways, curb returns etc.  Plus I only increase the frequency in curves.  In tangent areas, the frequency is set to 25 ft.

EDIT:  And there are TWO curves on this roadway.  It's an access road to get to a boat ramp and parking lot.  I work for the MO Dept of Conservation.  I've only been here a couple months but it's my understanding that this is about the largest project I'll ever need to use a corridor on.

[fcernst]

But my feature lines were still being displayed