CAN'T COPY A SCHEDULE FROM ONE DRAWING TO ANOTHER AND IT HOLD MY CHANGES.

CAN'T COPY A SCHEDULE FROM ONE DRAWING TO ANOTHER AND IT HOLD MY CHANGES.

ByronU78KM
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CAN'T COPY A SCHEDULE FROM ONE DRAWING TO ANOTHER AND IT HOLD MY CHANGES.

ByronU78KM
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CAN'T COPY A SCHEDULE FROM ONE DRAWING TO ANOTHER AND IT HOLD MY CHANGES. IT REMAINS THE OTB VERSION IN NEW DRAWING. i HAVE TRY COPY PASTE, RENAME AND THRU STYLE MANAGER. THANKS BYRON

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David_W_Koch
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I would not expect Copy/Paste to overwrite the Schedule Table Style in the target drawing file, but Style Manager should ask if you want to overwrite the existing style or not.

 

Question:  What changes are you making?  If you are adding one or more columns to the Schedule Table Style, and those columns are referencing properties that have been newly added to a Property Set Definition in the source file, and that Property Set Definition already exists in the target file, but without those new properties, then you need to copy the Property Set Definition to the target file first, and then copy the revised Schedule Table Style.

 

If you copy a Schedule Table Style to a drawing that does not have any of the referenced Property Set Definitions, ACA will copy those Property Set Definitions, too.  But if the referenced Property Set Definitions are already there (same name, but an older version), it will not copy them.  It will overwrite the Schedule Table Style, but when it sees that there are columns that reference Properties that do not exist in the target file, it will remove them.  If those are your only changes, it will appear as though the Schedule Table Style was not updated.


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ByronU78KM
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I changed the linework Colors to match Plotting style, but they don't carry thru to other drawings. Thanks Byron 

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At what display level did you make the changes?

 

  • Drawing Default:  I would not expect changes made at this level to transfer if you clipboard copy/paste a Schedule Table instance or used Style Manager to copy the Schedule Table Style to another drawing.  (I am not in front of ACA right now to verify.)  If you are making the changes at this level because you want all Schedule Tables to default to these settings, you can use Display Manager to copy the edited Display Representation to the target drawing.  If this is your standard, do the same to the template file(s) you use so new drawings start out that way.
  • Style-level Override:  If the line work display changes were meant only for Schedule Tables of this style and were made as a style-level override, then copy/pasting an instance to a target drawing that already has that style defined, but without the changes, will not bring the changes along.  Copying via Style Manager and choosing to overwrite should do so, as the overrides are part of the style.
  • Object-level Override: If the changes are a one-off for just this instance of the Schedule Table, then copy/paste should bring the changes, but copying the style in Style Manager would not.

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