All text turns into hollow rectangles?
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Topic: All text turns into hollow rectangles?
Posted By: AmarARCH
Subject: All text turns into hollow rectangles?
Date Posted: 11.Jul.2012 at 17:13
I was having some fatal errors  so I restarted my computer and, after opening my original .dwg file,  I started having the issue: each text item is a hollow rectangle from the title block (Xref) text to even the Mtext or dimensions on the sheet's details (paper & model space).
Not sure how or what started this epidemic, but it appears that a few terminals in our office have started showing this same error and was sporadically showing up on rare occassions in the past. I think the previous fix was to ignore it until it goes away. Not happenning, here.
The text will show up perfectly if I double-click on it, so I can work on it.. but you can imagine how this cannot continue.
 AutoCAD 2013 LT
Windows XP (mine)
Windows 7 (others)
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Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 11.Jul.2012 at 18:09
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Check your QTEXT variable and make sure it is set to OFF then do a REGEN. What happens? ------------- "Humans have a strength that cannot be measured. This is John Connor. If you are reading this, you are the resistance." <<AutoCAD 2015>> |
Posted By: AmarARCH
Date Posted: 11.Jul.2012 at 18:16
It makes me do this:  THANKS!!
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Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 12.Jul.2012 at 12:27
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Another lucky guess. You're welcomed. ------------- "Humans have a strength that cannot be measured. This is John Connor. If you are reading this, you are the resistance." <<AutoCAD 2015>> |
Posted By: Breeze104
Date Posted: 12.Jul.2012 at 14:46
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The question now becomes ....Why is it affecting other computers.....if nobody changed anything???? ------------- Breeze |
Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 12.Jul.2012 at 16:43
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Maybe it has something to do with a custom lisp routine.
------------- "Humans have a strength that cannot be measured. This is John Connor. If you are reading this, you are the resistance." <<AutoCAD 2015>> |
Posted By: AmarARCH
Date Posted: 13.Jul.2012 at 14:37
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Would you be surprised if I said "Ignorance is bliss"? Some folks wait for others to find the fix. Sure enough, I perked up and asked the question, and they come out of the woodwork with the same issue..
Would it be a factor if 80% of our office upgraded from 2000 to 2013 recently?
Since upgrading, there's been a small handful of "huh?" moments. For example, and I've yet to find a fix for this one: Why do I have to constantly turn the IMAGEFRAME to 0 each time I log into certain sheets, and, on certain sheets, the setting is already at 0 so I have to reset it to 3 then back to 0.. nuts! My best guess is there are certain settings that may be new to this upgraded experience, but we're too busy to go through a formal tutorial.
All in all, I'm loving the new CAD. But, yeah, a few head scratchers.
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Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 13.Jul.2012 at 17:52
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If the issue is related to a system variable you could handle it with a short piece of code. Example: (setvar “MaxHatch” 100000) ------------- "Humans have a strength that cannot be measured. This is John Connor. If you are reading this, you are the resistance." <<AutoCAD 2015>> |
Posted By: Breeze104
Date Posted: 13.Jul.2012 at 18:46
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When I got the email that someone had replied to this thread and I looked at it I thought you were making a joke for a min about the short piece of code... Because I got about 2 pages of code....so I came here to see if what I got was actually what you wrote...LOL Good thing I did, cuz the code here is much shorter...LOL What I got looked like this (but 2 pages worth)....Which I am guessing wasn't your intent John...LOL Normal 0
<w:PunctuationKerning/> false
<w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> false
<w:DonotPromoteQF/> EN-US X-NONE X-NONE <w:DontGrowAutofit/>
<w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/>
<w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <w:LsdException
Locked="false" Priority="0" Semi="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Qat="true"
Name="Normal"/> <w:LsdException Locked="false"
Priority="9" Semi="false" UnhideWhenUsed="false"
Qat="true" Name="ing 1"/> <w:LsdException
Locked="false" Priority="9" Qat="true"
Name="ing 2"/> <w:LsdException Locked="false"
Priority="9" Qat="true" Name="ing 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9"
Qat="true" Name="ing 4"/> <w:LsdException
Locked="false" Priority="9" Qat="true"
Name="ing 5"/> <w:LsdException Locked="false"
Priority="9" Qat="true" Name="ing 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9"
Qat="true" Name="ing 7"/> <w:LsdException Locked="false"
Priority="9" Qat="true" Name="ing 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" Qat="true"
Name="ing 9"/> <w:LsdException Locked="false"
Priority="39" Name="toc 1"/> <w:LsdException
Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39"
Name="toc 3"/> <w:LsdException Locked="false"
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Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 13.Jul.2012 at 20:47
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No, that was not my intent. I was just showing you an example.
------------- "Humans have a strength that cannot be measured. This is John Connor. If you are reading this, you are the resistance." <<AutoCAD 2015>> |