Attributes in AC19

[Laura Yanoviak]

Anyone else pulling their hair out over Attribute contamination in AC19? Attached is a screenshot of a straight-forward example of what has been happening with my Line Types, Fills and Building Materials.

Line Type Attribute #4 out-of-the-box is “Dashed”. For some reason, in the example below, it’s been replaced with “Solid Line (2)” even though “Solid Line” exists and is Attribute #1.

I'm creating our AC19 template, and have been careful not to cut/paste or otherwise import foreign elements, so I do not know where these rogue attributes are coming from.

[David Shorter]

seems that your file is not quite 'clean' I have just check the line attributes in an INT template and the sequence looks like this

[Laura Yanoviak]

Yes -- I know. The question is: where are these attributes coming from, and why are they overwriting existing attributes?

[David Shorter]

I assume you are using a clean template file so the only other option is that you have some 3rd party library or add on which is/are defining these attributes.
Hope this helps
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[Laura Yanoviak]

Nope -- we don't use add ons. Let me clarify -- this is not the first time I've migrated a template -- I've done this over 10 times over the past 10 years. This is a new problem.

[Stress Co_]

I noticed this too.
Don't know the how or why... but the line (2) copies were associated with some of my composite walls.

The good thing was, they were easy to "delete and replace" with the original line type from the "Line Types" palette (not Attribute Manager).

[jclewis]

Laura

It's not new to 19. I have had it happen in 18 several times.

I haven't run down the reason yet - we just delete and replace as needed.

jcl

[Laura Yanoviak]

I've had similar problems with AC18, but this is the first time it's been so problematic (probably because of the process of re-creating the template). Good to know it's not just me.

[Stress Co_]

Have you noticed any new,
duplicate Building Materials?
I had that too.

[Laura Yanoviak]

Yep -- duplicated Building Materials -- in one instance I had multiple Air Space materials (Air Space (2), Air Space (3)) appear when Air Space was clearly already an available attribute.

What's even MORE frustrating is Building Materials being redefined (i.e. assigned a different Fill and/or Surface than the one originally assigned).