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Wes,

Something is definitely off.
If you send in your file with a technical support ticket, we can get to the bottom of it.

--J

We figured out the issue. The preference set was changed to our detail preference set. But this has now brought up another question. Why would this happen even if the preference set changed, when the detail preference set was based off of the version that was used in the drawing in the first place.

Wes,

The RefNote callouts are created by first assembling the text, and then building the callout around that. So the size of the Callout Title font is critical, as it is all derived from that. The question thus becomes, why would someone with the Detail preference set active, change the Callout Title font size to something so dramatically different. It is certainly worth a discussion with the team, and may merit locking down the permissions of the preference set to prevent this in the future.

--J

Wes, As you know, I'm all about open source. Education is the key. As long as people understand what preferences do, they can be careful not to change them, or only change them when necessary knowing what the effects will be. You know that the Petaluma, Sacramento and Irvine offices all maintain separate profiles, and they're all open. Yes, that has bitten us once that I remember, but it also allows anyone to fix what may be broken. In this case, understanding the Style command is rather important. For instance, it someone understands how profiles control outputs, but they want to contradict the profile for a particular instance, they can override it in a distinct file (drawing). Education is the key. And then there's always another thing that I support: Rules are made to be broken. But only after you have an understanding as to why the rule was created. If you don't understand a rule (like gravity for instance) be very careful about breaking that rule.