Surface Elevation Label

[nandersonZH5UD]

Having an issue with the 'Dot' arrow head style for a surface spot elevation label. I have had two separate drawings showing the Dot incorrectly. All other drawings show correctly. All other arrow head styles show correctly in these two files that  show the Dot arrow head style incorrectly.

bad

The Dot block appears to be fine in each drawing and I also tried to purge out this block and insert the Dot block from a drawing that worked. However this did not fix it.

I checked our drawing template and it shows correctly in it.

Using the Dot small arrow head style and increasing the size doesn't work, because it makes the leader longer for some reason, and all spot elevation leader lengths would need to be increased to show the Dot small arrow head style in these drawings.

Below are the dragged state properties of the label

Let me know if there is any additional information you need or if you have seen this occur before

Thanks,

Nate

[BrianHailey]

Without seeing a drawing, this will be very difficult to diagnose. If you can attach a drawing showing the issue, you'll likely get a much quicker response. 

[tcorey]

You not only have a very small arrowhead (dot) size, but your text size and border gap are super-small, too. Try some reasonable numbers in all of those options. If you post the drawing, we can look under the hood...

[nandersonZH5UD]

See attached.

[cwitzel5NL5H]

There used to be an issue xrefing that style.  The solution then was to add a marker rather than an Dot in the label.  You can do this with the property of the label and it can be added in the styles setting.

I think the issue was resolved a couple of versions ago, I want to say 2020.

We made a custom marker called spot dot using a block.  The example below is from a different set of styles, but the idea is the same.

[nandersonZH5UD]

Another thing to add is the spot elevation only appears incorrect in the working drawing. When it is xrefed into the grading plan it appears correctly.

[BrianHailey · Accepted solution]

In one of the drawings where the dot is displaying correctly, explode one of the labels until you get down to the "Dot" block. Add that block to a tool palette (you'll need to save the drawing so I would recommend saving it as a copy of the original so you don't mess the original up). In the drawings there it is being displayed incorrectly, right click on the "Dot" block in the tool palette and choose, "Redefine". 

Make sure the blocks are named the same or this won't work. When I exploded one of the labels from my template, the "Dot" block was named "_Dot" so I had to use the RENAME command to get it to be the same name as the "Dot" block in your drawing.

[nandersonZH5UD]

Worked. Thanks!