Anyone having problem with text text when editing. It seems to hold it position after you edit and try to rotate or move the text?
Yes:
Here are a couple of options.
1. Convert to MTEXT
2. Run Audit with "Y" (sinc came up with this one.)
Bill
Here is another one. Run AUDIT (you may not see any errors) and then keep using ED command for editing of text.
Is this a bug that may be fixed soon, is causing major problems. very unproductive.
We are having this same problem. But have noticed MTEXT does not behave like this. Hopefully there will be a patch soon for this. I am getting tired of running the AUDIT command 100 tmes a day!
The city engineering team that I work for is also having the same text problem. As suggested, we tried the dtexted = 1 command and it gave us a dialog box for text entry. Unfortunately it would not retain the changes.
When we open the properties window and try to change the text we get a dialog box with the following message: "Object was open for read".
The only work around to break out of the open for read mode appears to be Audit.
This is getting extremely frustrating and really slows productivity. Please Autodesk give us a hot fix!
Thanks!
I'm having the same problem, and can reproduce it on two separate computers (one workstation, one laptop).
It appears if you copy a piece of DTEXT, then text edit the original piece of text, it will get "stuck". You can't edit it again, and if you MOVE or ROTATE it dissappears until a regen. Audit, or close/reopen fixes it temporarily.
I guess switching to Mtext will fix it, but I don't like Mtext for everything.
There is hope! Autodesk knows the problem and is supposedly working on a hotfix.
In the mean time Autodesk issued the following work around:
Dont forget to run the Audit command after changing the Dtext editor or the changes wont work. That's where I was making my mistake. Good Luck!
M...
it like standing on right leg on your chair , touch your nose with your left index finger and push the <esc> <ctrl> <fix> key.
I hope there is a fix soon.
Moving or rotating text would make it disappear, and regen would display the text with no change.
I experienced the same issue with the style labels as well.
editing text
well at least I now know it was not just me I couldn't replicate the error with any consistency
The straight TEXT command is DText, so that doesn't help.
DTEXTED is a persistent setting, not per drawing. If you set it on each workstation once it should stick.
The idea that this only affects dynamic text is incorrect. Multiline text is equally affected. I have leaders with MTEXT objects that when copied, 'freeze up'. I can't erase or move or edit them. Well, erase makes it look gone, but a regen will bring it back. Likewise, copying a peice of MTEXT that has two lines of text, creates the same 'frozen' text objects that I can't modify or edit.
I will be trying the above mentioned work around. I wish my chair wasn't on casters though, because I fall while balancing and I still haven't found the 'fix' key to hit in combination with esc and ctrl! I'm pretty sure the tongue goes out of the left side of the mouth right?
So, this is affecting sevaral installations of Civil 3D in our office. The work around does not actually work in several instances. Is Autodesk going to fix their software and tell us about it?
I don't have a solution (sorry). But I am having the same problem on my installation and one other installation in the office.
Interestingly though, it is only happeing with our two 32-bit installations. The other guy in the office with AutoCAD is running 64-bit and says that it has yet to happen to him...
(All three installations are Civil 3D 2012)
It also happens on 64 Bit installations. I have the same issue as everyone else above. I hope they get a fix soon. It gets annoying if you start doing alot of text edits!
I just upgrades to infrastructure suite from civil 3d 2012. I was hoping the new install would fix this text issue but it has not. I shall try setting dtexted to 1 and see what happens.
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