Pressure Pipe Network Data Reference

[Anonymous]

My Pressure pipe network is in my base file.  I go through and set the elevations of the pipe network using the follow surface command.  It creates deflection points in the profile parts.  It works beautifully. 

The problem that I am having is when I create plan and profile sheets, the deflection points do not translate through to the sheet file.  Only the beginning and end of the pipe elevations come through.  Also I cannot modify the parts of the network because the are referenced in and not actualy in the file.

Please help!  I have reached the end of my rope!

Thanks,

Allan

[BrianHailey]

Unfortunately, this is a known issue in the software. When you follow surface or curve vertically a pressure pipe, that information is not brought through in a data reference. I would highley recommend you create a support ticket with Autodesk so they can see how many people are having problems with this.

The current workaround is to create the profile views in the drawing the Pressure Network resides in and then xref that into the plan sheets.

Yes, it sucks. Yes, it should have been fixed a long time ago.

[Anonymous]

I was affraid of that and I have already started copying and pasting the profiles from my sheet files into my base file. 

My hope is that when I show the pressure pipe parts in the profile view, then modify my base file profile style to not display anything (thus only my pipes and their labels will be showing), delete my pressure network data shortcut link in the sheet files, bring my base reference file to front, that way my profiles are still in my sheet files and I can properly modify them in my sheet files as needed ,but my pipes show up correctly.

Pain in the freaking a$$.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE QUICK RESPONSE!!!

[Anonymous]

I am having this same issue. I completely agree what a pain in the a$$ this is.

[Anonymous]

Also, I am using view frames and create sheets (plan and profile), which now need to be in the same file as my pressure pipe network? This file will become huge and slow after I create plan and profile sheets for each of my 4 pressure pipe network alignments. F@*K my life.

[Anonymous]

I just finished something that seems to be working...


- Save your "Base" file

- Save your Base file as something such as Plan and Profile Sheets (must be in the same directory location)

- Delete everything out of your model space

- Reference your base file into this new "Sheet" File

- In your Sheet Set Manager...Right click on a sheet that was created in your Base file, select Rename & Renumber, change the File name to your new "Sheet" file

- Open your Original Base File and delete all of the viewports.

I have 87 viewport/sheets so this was a SLOW process but it seems to be working for me so far.

Good luck.

[Anonymous]

We are using Civil 3D 2019.2 and are having this issue. How is this still a problem?

We use 2 host drawings, XR-EXISTING for all the existing data and XR-PROPOSED for all our design data. Our design data is x'refd and data referenced into our production sheets. It is impossible to use the data shortcuts this way if the production sheet doesn't match what the host shows. My production sheet shows the pipe above the existing grade in the profile view.

Is anyone else experiencing this? Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Anonymous]

Looks like they fixed it in 2021.  Would sure be nice if they could update previous products.