Corrupt label styles

[rkmcswain]

Wondering if anyone has ever run across what appears to be a corrupt label style? In this particular case, it's a structure label style.

When you select this style for annotation and pick a structure, nothing appears in the drawing. Exploration of the style settings revealed this incomplete dialog:

So far this is only affecting a few label styles, not all of them.

Just wondering what may have caused this?

[Jeff_M]

I have seen this before and never have figured out what causes it. Only solution I found was to create a new style. IIRC, Audit does not help with this.

[rkmcswain]

Correct, AUDIT does not help.

Unfortunately, there are several of these corrupt styles in my template, for at least a couple of weeks, which of course means - I have ±dozens of drawings out there with this problem.

I wish I knew what caused it so I could avoid this in the future.

[troma]

I had similar issue with a profile view label style.
I think I tracked it back to dragging many labels from one drawing to another; most were fine, but one had a hiccup on the way.

[rkmcswain]

Well no wonder AUDIT doesn't help, there is nothing "corrupt" about these styles.....they've simply had all of the label components removed.

Now how _THAT_ happened, I don't know.

You may be on to something though, I have added some styles to the template by drag+drop from other drawings.

I guess I'll stop doing that.

[jmayo-EE]

Iv'e never seen that one but I have seen C3D replace my style font with the standard font on numerous occasions. I believe it's related to ImportStyleAndSettings. Do you use this command?

[rkmcswain]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Iv'e never seen that one but I have seen C3D replace my style font with the standard font on numerous occasions. I believe it's related to ImportStyleAndSettings. Do you use this command?

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Ok, now that you mention it, I have seen that (the replacing of the font with "Standard") when you drag+drop label styles. But I suppose it could happen with the Import styles command too. Never tested it.

I think that particular problem has something to do with child styles, possible dragging+dropping a child style into a drawing where the 'parent' style does not exist.

Just have not had time to test all these scenarios.

Thanks!

[troma]

Now that you mention it, that rings a bell. No components, and everything locked so you can't edit it.
And yes, it was a child style. I'm not sure if I was dragging it to a drawing where the parent didn't exist or a drawing where the parent had been significantly edited.

BTW, it was in C3D 2008 that it happened to me.

[mathewkol]

I can't ofeer any solution but I ca nconfirm I have seen this behavior before unfortunately.

[SkipBurns]

I've seen this... for me it seems to happen when dragging in child styles.  If i'm very careful and always drag in the parent style first, then the child styles, I can typically avoid the problem.

[Hammer.john.j]

I've had that happen, but I just so happened to need the label style immediately after I dragged it into the drawing which obviously depicted the problem.... however, it's random sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't... i copied the label again and it worked, strange.

[troma]

Agreed, it's random. I drag children without their parents all the time (sounds cruel, I know, and probably illegal!) Probably 90% or 95% of the time all is fine.
Randomness is annoying!

[rkmcswain]

Thanks for all the comments.

Looks like we need to verify styles after importing.