Alignment Mask Will Not Remove

[J-Porter]

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?

[user181 · Accepted solution]

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.

[J-Porter]

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

[troma]

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.

Civil 3D 2026.