CAD Forum discussion (EN) : Text disappeared in AutoCAD 2011 https://www.cadforum.cz/forum_en/ Sat, 05 Sep 2026 09:42:00 +0000 Fri, 03 Jan 2014 08:45:02 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 https://www.cadforum.cz/forum_en/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=9931 <![CDATA[CAD Forum discussion (EN)]]> https://www.cadforum.cz/forum_en/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://www.cadforum.cz/forum_en/ <![CDATA[Text disappeared in AutoCAD 2011 : Run an AUDIT on the damaged file...]]> https://www.cadforum.cz/forum_en/forum_posts.asp?TID=9931&PID=25611&title=text-disappeared-in-autocad-2011#25611 Author: heinsite
Subject: 9931
Posted: 03.Jan.2014 at 08:45

Run an AUDIT on the damaged file and tell it to automatically fix any errors it finds.  See if that settles your issue.  You might also want to look for a .bak file.  If you find one, change the name to a .dwg with a different filename.  Open that and see if the trouble is still there.

Dave.


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Subject: 9931
Posted: 03.Jan.2014 at 00:31

Can you attach or upload a DWG file to this website?  I'd be willing to look at it.  I have both AutoCAD and DraftSight too.
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Subject: 9931
Posted: 02.Jan.2014 at 18:50

Thank you for responding.
 
The non-displaying text includes Simplex, Standard and Sans Serif.  There may be other fonts.  There are no characters more exotic than ", ', and /.  Many of the non-displaying text entities have only letters and/or numbers.
 
They are on a common layer, but it is not frozen or off.  The associative dimensions are on the same layer.  The dimension lines and arrowheads are there, but there is a gap where the text should be.  The text is not so small that it can't be seen.  The text appears normally when the file is open in DraftSight.
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Subject: 9931
Posted: 02.Jan.2014 at 18:15

I had a couple of serious problems with 2011 AutoCAD so I went back to 2010.

What font are you using?

Undefined shape may be referring to a shape file.  Did the text include any special characters?
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Subject: 9931
Posted: 02.Jan.2014 at 17:23

I shut my computer down on December 30th and, when I returned on January 2nd, my AutoCAD files displayed no text.  This includes regular text and dimension text.  It is the same in model space and in paper space.  There is a grip where the text should be in dimensions, but there is nothing where the regular text should be.  When I open the files with DraftSight, the text is all there.  I am not aware of having changed anything. 
 
What may be a clue to what happened is that, when I open a drawing, there are dozens of messages of the form, "** Undefined shape 50", with various numbers including 50.  I'd never seen this.  I can't deduce what is going on and I'm working with DraftSight today, just to get things done.
 
Am I the only one who thinks that AutoCAD 2011 is the worst version ever?  Things come unstuck that were nailed down 20 years ago.
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