lock section view location

[Smewood]

Is there a way to lock the location of your section view after you create them?  I created multiple sheets of section views, but now want to manually move the views to align to new title block constraints and don't want to have to worry about them reverting the their original location.

[IslandGirl83]

I would also like to know this. If anyone has any methods to lock the section view locations so that when updates are run they don't shift back to the orginal point, that would be great. 

Marie 

[doni49]

If you move your section views and then the update because changes in the surface(s) or other features, they will not revert back to previous locations. I've done this many times in C3D 2012 without having to do anything special to them.

[doni49]

P. S. When you move the sections, make sure to only select the section views (the grid lines) and NOT the surface lines or any other features.

[IslandGirl83]

I am not just talking about the dynamic updates that happen automatically when the surface or other features change. I am talking about when someone clicks update section view layout. When ever I do that any moved sections I created go back to their orginal Array location.  

I am running Civil 3D 2011. I am not sure if this would have changed by 2012. I will be putting a warning in the drawing to hopefully stop someone from doing this layout update, but it is not 100%. 

Also for my specific application I am drawing them with the pipe network as source but I intend to remove it after manually drawing in the pipes and I am afraid when I do that the grids will automatically adjust. They did when I added the pipe network as a source. The reason I am doing this is I do not have RCAP pipes (ARCH) in my cataloge that display correctly in section so I am simply using the network to determine inverts for insertion of a pipe cross section block. 

Marie

[IslandGirl83]

Possibly i can avoid the grid changes by changing my settings for elevation to user specified instead of automatic. Still playing with it. 

[doni49]

Other than moving them to their original locations, what would be the purpose of using this command?

To me, that would be the purpose of such a command.

[IslandGirl83]

Probably no other purpose for that command. I am not certain that is the only time they shift. I am trying to proactively look into possible issues. I am new to my company but, noticed in other drawings that the sections had shifted. All the linework and notation on top was no longer correctly lined up with the sections. I thought if there was a lock option it could avoid this issue. I think since there doesnt seem to be that option, my best bet is to create a line for the left and bottom axis of my grids on a non-plot layer. If anything ever does happen to shift them, then I can easily snap them back to that point.

Marie