Is there a way to prevent annotative text (stations, curve data, ect.) from moving? We often need to move or rotate text so our plans are presentable, but the annotation tends to move back to a default position.
Paul:
The text should only move back if you re-annotate the alignment, and should stay where you put it as long as you do not do such. Is it acting differently? As well, I would like to know if there is a manner to "lock" the annotation so that even re-annotating an alignment will not cause the text to change placement. Anyone out here know if such a tool is available?
Mark
I could have sworn I had posted something about this and gotten an SR during our last submission, but I don't see anything in my records.
This issue presented itself when we were working with profile annotation. We had to copy a bunch of Grade Percentages on different points of the profile to match with sheets. Locations reset themselves not just after removing annotation and reapplying annotation, but also when we tweaked our profile. In addition, any of the Text Favorites/Annotation Cells that we copied from their original location lost their association with the profile and just displayed "LinearAnnotation.PositionX" or whatever property it was referencing. At that time, I had tried your suggestion of Locking each element we didn't want to update, but that did not make any difference.
As of right now, I am not aware of any method of disassociating annotation cells, or dropping fields to plain text, or any other method to prevent this from happening.
The use of Named Boundaries would probably resolve this issue, however our project has variable profile limits to match our plan boundaries, which were not created using the "Named Boundaries from Polygon" tool, and we didn't have the time to implement all of that. We are trying to implement use of Named Boundaries with our Cross Section development, and its going pretty well so far. Even then, I'm not sure how all of that would work with profile annotation, but will probably experiment with it in the future.
Edit: I wrote it up in our lesson's learned doc, but I don't think it ever made it to the forums or via SR:
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An excellent, thoughtful narrative, Robert. With new technologies always seem to come new issues :-)
Every day is an adventure ;-)
I logged this defect last year: Defect 1032959:[Drawing Production] Profile annotations reverting back to initial position when moved
Currently it's still in the backlog, not yet approved by the Product Manager with no timeline but it's defined as critical.