Project Standards - Update Problems

[burchd]

I have been having some intermittent problems with AEC objects listed in a defined dws file.

i set up a test where i have a wall style in the dws file and in one of the constructs. i change the wall style in the dws file, then open the construct.

it shows the menu correctly and the setting to update from project is selected. select ok, and the changes to the wall do not happen.

even using the synchronize project from the button on the project page, it runs through the files, but doesn't update the styles. I have noticed that it will run through all files in the directory even if they are not listed as part of the project.

I noticed this behavior totally by accident when i setup the test projects and had some dwg sample files that were imported.

What am i doing wrong here....? it is detecting the changed styles, its just not passing the changes forward.

[dzatto]

I don't know, but I had the same problems. I pretty much abandoned using a .dws file. My projects aren't too huge, so to change the wall styles isn't that big of a deal, but I would like to find out why it wouldn't always update.

[burchd]

Another bit that may be related.

I have found that versioning seems to be critical for updates to mover around from the dws file to the dwg. i tested this using a dwg for the standard drawing also, and got the same behavior...

Versions seem to be required on both both on the Dws file, and modified styles from DWG files passed to the DWS in the event of change.

I took a project which was not updating, and I went into the DWS file that i created. I forced a version on all AEC objects from the Style Manager. After this updates seemed to move around. I then changed a control style, in this case a wall, and canceled the version so it would not show up, and it would correctly identify the wall as changed, but it would not update the wall in the target dwg.

I also noticed a yellow ! triangle, on all styles which did not have versions in the DWS file.

Perhaps someone out there experiencing this could clarify this behavior.