Hi all,
I had a strange experience with ORD this afternoon. I was editing a file, I got up to go do talk with my colleagues for a few minutes, then when I came back and unlocked my computer I noticed that the references in my file had a color adjustment applied to them that I defiantly didn't do myself before I got up and walked away. It's not mission critical, but it bothers me deeply when my CAD programs do things on their own without a clear explanation. Is there any mechanism that you all can think of that would cause a color adjustment to happen automatically to all of my references? A combination of accidental button presses or missclick? A bug? Some other variable in my configuration that I'm not aware of?
Thanks for the knowledge-
OpenRoads Designer CE - 2021 Release 2 - Version 10.10.21.04, Using RealDWG 2022
Did somebody edit the reference files directly, maybe with a batch process? Microstation will load changes made in reference files in the middle of a session.
Since the files were local to my computer at the time, I doubt a batch process would have changed anything The only thing I can think of that might have had an outside influence was a scheduled ProjectWise server reset. I'm only guessing that because I have to log in when I open ORD even when I'm not working directly in a file on PW. Probably ghosts in the machine.
Ah, if they were in ProjectWise there are a couple of settings than can cause ProjectWise to automatically update references, but they are off by default and I believe most companies don't override those settings. You can check them on your projectwise, the variables are:
# PW_REFERENCE_MODE controls what to do with reference files that are updated on the server # 1 - Bring up dialog # 2 - Do it silently # 3 - Don't update # Default is 3 PW_REFERENCE_MODE = 3 # PW_REFERENCE_TIMER controls how frequently to check the server for updated reference files # time is in minutes, 0 means do not check. If PW_REFERENCE_MODE not set to mode 1 or 2, # no update check is performed. # Default is 30 PW_REFERENCE_TIMER = 30
If it isn't the references being updated I'm not really sure what the cause might be, I'll have to leave it for people that might be more familiar with possibilities. You might ask over in ORD forum as well, I'm don't think their are any special ORD functions that might change this but am not a 100% certain.