Survey figure defualt style ignored

[IanMcClain]

When bringing in some figures that don't match the figure prefix database in a drawing with a set default style for figures (settings tab>survey>edit feature settings) it is being ignored and the "standard" style is being created and used. Is there another setting?

[ToddRogers-WPM]

In the Settings of the Toolspace, under Survey, so you have your Figures set up under there?  This is where the Figure Prefix Database reads the styles of the figures.

[IanMcClain]

Yes, I have four styles in my template and one of those is set to default. However, when a figure doesn't match the prefix database, it creates a new "standard" style and uses that.

[ToddRogers-WPM]

The figures are created in the toolspace settings...

These need to be specified in the database...

If these don't match, standard is substituted.

[DaveM · Accepted solution]

I agree what you did seems like it should work, I found another setting for style tucked into survey user setting. You might give it a try.

[IanMcClain]

Haha! Success! I new there had to be a redundant, un-intuitive setting hidding somewhere!

Thank you, Sir!

[DaveM]

Sometimes its like playing with a double lightswitch. They both have to be on for anything to work. So Frustraiting.

[drenaud]

C3D 2019

Resurrecting this. I have the default survey figure set in two places:

Settings tab>Survey, Edit Feature Settings

and

Survey User Settings

When I go Survey>Figures>Insert Figure Interactively, I'm still getting the Standard figure instead of the one I want as default.

Where are the default settings for this command?

[drenaud]

CORRECTION

If i create a figure interactively it uses what I set as default. It is when I open a survey command window and OFFSET an existing figure (I'm creating curb & gutter) that it seems to be stuck on Standard. and Standard doesn't default to being used as a breakline so I have to open the slow survey figure editor for each and every new figure to change it to a breakline. Also, on opening the Survey Figure Editor it switches the figure to Standard and Layer 0. Thank goodness for MATCHPROP, which at least works on figures for layer & style.

[rl_jackson]

@drenaud,

Offsetting a survey figure will give you a feature line not a survey figure. This is probably why its going to standard. If you code the Horizontal and vertical offsets before import they will use the figure style based on the description.

[drenaud]

I had them (offsetted figures) list as survey figures, and they showed up the toolspace as survey figures.

I've given up. I am using linework codes to offset the back of curb now.

thanks for the reply

[rl_jackson]

I can not replicate the figure being created from the generic offset or by using the stepped offset commands in C3D19 with all current SP's installed, or any other version I've used. I can say that via, the point file using the HO VO commands in the linework codes does reflect survey figures, but that has to be coded in the description.

[drenaud]

see other thread/post. I was using the OFFSET command available in the survey command window to get a survey figure from a survey figure offset. This way simply doesn't work well enough in production if you have to edit every resulting figure.