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Alignment Mask Will Not Remove

J-Porter — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 16:00:52 GMT

Re: Alignment Mask Will Not Remove

J-Porter — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 16:03:16 GMT

Well, I posted a video for better understanding, but I'm not sure if it will post. So, to better explain. . .

I've got an alignment in a drawing that is being shortcutted into another drawing. In the alignment drawing there was a mask on the alignment. It has since been removed. However, when the reference is synchronized the mask will not go away. I cannot figure out why the mask remains. Any ideas?

Re: Alignment Mask Will Not Remove

user181 — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 16:48:42 GMT

Try going to the Mange tab on the ribbon and select Mange Data Shortcuts (command: _AeccManageDataShortcuts) and select the alignment under Drawing Objects and also on Data Shortcuts and then select the button at the top between the two sides to relink them.

Re: Alignment Mask Will Not Remove

J-Porter — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 18:35:20 GMT

@user181, that worked!!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! I thought I was going crazy.

Re: Alignment Mask Will Not Remove

troma — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 22:03:40 GMT

I had to use the same procedure to get my masks to work.

This is in a bunch of freshly created drawings. After shortcutting the alignment, I added masks in the source drawing. But the masks refused to synchronize (into five different host drawings). When I opened the Manage Data Shortcuts box, the alignments acted like they were already connected. But I clicked the button anyway, and it worked. Alignments are now masked.

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