CHANGING ALIGNMENT NAME PROBLEM

[allendamron]

Has anyone had problems with changing the alignment names?

My alignments have profiles and corridors referencing them & after changing the alignment names, I am not able to open the base file containing the alignments.

I've tried recover and am still stuck.

[Jay_B]

Have you tried retrieving from a bak or auto save file?

[Jeff_M]

I change alignment names way too often, but have never run into any issues with doing so.

[allendamron]

I was able to restore a previous version of the alignment file.

I tried keeping the new names but the profiles wouldn't open.

Once I changed the names back to their old names, everything works so I'm assuming that Civil 3d did not like me changing the alignment names.

[Guillaume.Desmedt]

Hi,

Did you change alignment name in source file of DS referenced document? or DS referenced alignement in another one? or no DS?

If you use DS,

-Keep in mind that DS referenced alignment doesn't like CAPITAL LETTER and space in it.

-Changing name of a referenced alignment is not a good way, prefer changing alignment name in the source file.

If you don't use DS, I don't know...

Rgds

[allendamron]

Thank you,

The name change happened in the alignment source file. The alignments are DS referencing to profiles and corridors in other drawings. 

I'm curious to know why the DS alignment doesn't like CAPITALS and spaces??

-Allen

[Guillaume.Desmedt]

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I'm curious to know why the DS alignment doesn't like CAPITALS and spaces??

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Me too but I think it's due to transformation of alignment name in xml language which transform Space, letters with accent (e.g é,à...) and CAPITALS. To be confirmed

That's why I recommend to not use these caracteres and prefer using minors and _

Rgds

[jmayo-EE]

Did you simply rename the alignment or did you delete it and create a new one with a different name? If you delete it and redefine datashortcuts will not find the object since the object handles are not the same.

You can open the data shortcut editor and remap the shortcuts and change the identifier froom Handle Only to Name only.

[allendamron]

I just renamed the existing alignments. I didn't know you can remap shortcuts that's cool.

Do you agree that it's best to not use capital letters and spaces in data shortcut names?

      Thanks, Allen

[jmayo-EE]

I have used capitals and spaces for years. I have not noticed any issue with them. I do shy away from special characters (#$%^&*, etc)

[tgonzalez]

Jeff_M i have a drainage network where i changed the alignment names. now my data references do not match the network file. They still have the old names on the alignments.

Civil 3D 2023

[tgonzalez]

im working in Civil 3D 2023