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C3D: disappearing structure/pipe/surface labels
« on: October 08, 2014, 06:19:54 PM »
I opened a drawing today and all my labels were gone. My network and surface are from datashortcuts. The really strange thing is, if I run QSelect, it will find the labels, and I can even change the style from the properties palette, but nothing I do will make them display. Does anyone have any insight into why this might happen?
The really frustrating/confusing part is, I opened a bak file in the temp folder that was a week+ old and the labels were still in that one. Nothing has been done to the file since then, except maybe adding some dummy labels.
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Re: C3D: disappearing structure/pipe/surface labels
« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2014, 02:58:00 AM »
Does it help if you change the drawing scale?

Sometimes in Profile Views the values in Bands are gone, and changing the scale mostly bring them back.
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Re: C3D: disappearing structure/pipe/surface labels
« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2014, 06:56:00 AM »
Any chance you can share the drawing here?

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Re: C3D: disappearing structure/pipe/surface labels
« Reply #3 on: October 09, 2014, 08:41:38 AM »
Does it help if you change the drawing scale?

Sometimes in Profile Views the values in Bands are gone, and changing the scale mostly bring them back.
Tried, but nothing happened.

Any chance you can share the drawing here?
Can't, it's part of a large project and they're pretty funny about file sharing.
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Re: C3D: disappearing structure/pipe/surface labels
« Reply #4 on: October 09, 2014, 08:44:57 AM »
check that all layers associated with the pipes and or surfaces and labels for same are on, and thawed.

also verify that 'level of detail' setting is off

and...last that you are in a true WCS PLAN view
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Re: C3D: disappearing structure/pipe/surface labels
« Reply #5 on: October 09, 2014, 08:45:48 AM »
on a side note....

they would probably be happier sharing that file to solve the issue
than having to redo all the labeling...  :evil:
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Re: C3D: disappearing structure/pipe/surface labels
« Reply #6 on: October 09, 2014, 02:45:13 PM »
on a side note....

they would probably be happier sharing that file to solve the issue
than having to redo all the labeling...  :evil:
touche.
For submittal, the one found in the temp folder worked fine. The drawing was basically a network, surface, and the base file xrefed in, so little in the drawing had actually changed.
However, I'll cut out everything that isn't important and post something later.
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Re: C3D: disappearing structure/pipe/surface labels
« Reply #7 on: October 09, 2014, 03:00:00 PM »
Interestingly....I get the whole 'proprietary' 'super secret' job thing all the time.

Yet it is very easy to turn any drawing into anonymous data and still get the help that is needed.


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Re: C3D: disappearing structure/pipe/surface labels
« Reply #8 on: October 10, 2014, 01:11:38 PM »
Interestingly....I get the whole 'proprietary' 'super secret' job thing all the time.

Yet it is very easy to turn any drawing into anonymous data and still get the help that is needed.


Anytime and every time I help someone, or do training for a company; there is always an implied
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... implied non-disclosure....  the lawyers would have a field day with it.  The people doing the work may have implicit trust in your integrity, but only rarely do the people on the cad station have ownership of the drawings and the authority to send them out to a non-contracted person.
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