C3D 2025 - Alignment Source became DREF

C3D 2025 - Alignment Source became DREF

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C3D 2025 - Alignment Source became DREF

Cadguru42
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This is a strange one. I have a drawing that's the source of my alignment and profile. There are data shortcuts made of these alignments. I last edited my alignment drawing back in December. Today, I go to edit it and when I selected the alignment I didn't get the grips. I checked Prospector and it shows my alignment is a data reference. But that can't be since this is the source drawing of that alignment, as shown in the screenshot below.

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What's going on? Any time I save the drawing I get the notification that data shortcuts need to  be sync'd. There's a strange, circular reference going on and I can't edit the alignment.

 

I promoted the alignment in the drawing and going to see if that's all it takes to fix this, but thought I'd make a post to see if anyone else has run into this. I've never had this happen since data shortcuts were added way back in C3D 2007 or 2008. 

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Jeew-m
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Hi,

In the preview area it will show the source file location too.

Is both locations same.?



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Cadguru42
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@Jeew-m wrote:

Hi,

In the preview area it will show the source file location too.

Is both locations same.?


Yes. The Data Shortcut for the alignment is what is selected and shown in the preview window. You can clearly see that the same open drawing is the source drawing for the DS. I promoted the alignment and that seems to have fixed it, but how in the world did the source alignment magically become a data reference?

C3D 2024-2026
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