Pipe Data Band - Unable to select data source

[stephendavidson23]

Hi There,

Working on a school project in Civil 3D and I'm having trouble getting the pipe data band to 'connect' to the pipe network to show invert elevations in the band. When I am in profile view properties -> bands I can add the pipe band that I want but I am unable to select the data source. When I click on the cell it is blank.

There are currently 4 pipe networks in the drawing, proposed and existing sanitary, and proposed and existing storm. So far we have got around this by manually drawing the ticks at each manhole and manually dragging down a MH label. This is getting a bit tire-some for each change that we make, and I would like the data source to work so this automatically updates.

The drawing is attached. None of the profiles that are created in this drawing are allowing me to select the data source in the bands tab of the profile view properties.

Thank you for your help!

[user181 · Accepted solution]

Hi @stephendavidson23 ,  If you purge the blocks in your drawing, specifically the RYAN - expipenetworks - C3D block the data sources come back. You should also AUDIT the drawing, there were over 10,000 errors when I did. 

[stephendavidson23]

Hi user181,

Purging the RYAN - expipenetworks did the trick, I can now select a pipe network as a data source.

Do you mind elaborating on how you figured this out?

Thanks!

[user181]

I have had this problem when copying and pasting pipe network parts or labels. So when I saw the block with expipenetworks in the name I figured it could be the same issue. So I purged it and it was the problem.