Spot elevation leaders changing for XREF drawing

[CJJ]

One of my users is having a problem with the way his leaders are showing up for spot elevations in Civil 3D '09. His base map has a surface with some spot elevations called out. The leader arrow is set to "dot" and everything looks fine. When he references this drawing in another one, all of the leader arrows changed to "closed filled." We've looked through the surface styles and nothing seems to be different, we can change them all we want and it keeps displaying the closed filled arrowheads rather than the dots. We also tried changing the multileader settings and a few other things. I've even created a new, blank drawing and added the XREF and it still changes the leaders.

 

Has anyone seen this? Where is this setting being overwritten?

[Murph_map]

Check the "Label" styles not the mleader style.

[EMS_0525]

Are you XREFing and not Data Shortcutting? If you data shortcut the surface labeling would be much easier. Like murph said its would be under settings tab in toolspace> surface> label styles>Spot elevation. Thats where you want to look. Im not sure if you need to fix it in the drawing that the xref is in or the xref itself.

[CJJ]

I had looked at the spot elevation label styles in the surface first. These were set to use the Dot, not closed filled. I also checked to make sure the block for the dot was working, I was afraid it had been overwritten with the closed filled block, but that wasn't the case either. The user had been using an XREF into a drawing that was in turn using data shortcuts to get to the surface.

 

He's found a way around this by doing some Copy/Paste with exploded labels to make it look right, but it wasn't really as elegant a solution as I was hoping for, I'm sure he wasted a lot of time on it.

 

Thanks for your insight, hopefully this won't happen to us again.