Sneaky text attribute showing up in my titleblock

[Anonymous]

Hello all,

I have a weird situation here. Our company is using a 'typical' titleblock created from our main engineering center, but I have noticed that when I update the titleblock, an attribute shows up at the bottom. It's upside down and is a copy of our drawing #. When I double click on it, it takes me to the drawing # attribute in the 'enhanced attribute editor', but that isn't the right attribute. This one I'm clicking on seems to be a copy, and is at the bottom of the list in 'enhanced attribute editor', and all of the text is in red. I don't understand what that means. And when I open the titleblock in 'block editor' I don't even see that attribute! Can someone explain to me what may be happening? And how this was set up originally? I'm attaching screenshots to show what I'm describing.

I'm using ACE 2010.

Thanks!!!

[Icemanau]

OK, If the attribute name is red, that means it is a duplicate of another attribute name.

Best way to fix it is to open the block itself as a dwg. This will cause all the attributes to show up as if you are creating the block.

Delete the problem attribute and save the file.

Now just update the block in your template and test it to see if it has fixed the problem.

Regards Brad

[s.wile]

Remember to sync the attributes as well. ATTSYNC

Perhaps the block is correct but that instance has an extra attribute.

Home Tab, Block Panel drop down...

[Anonymous]

Thank you! That was all it seemed to need. I didn't have the original drawing so I couldn't edit it that way. ATTSYNC did the trick.