I've attached part of the problem drawing, which was originally created in LT 2012
The block in question was inserted and then copied using the standard Autocad copy.
The drawing was then saved.
A colleague opened up the drawing in Full Autocad 2012, and the result is what you see.
The bottom block is what it is meant to look like. The top two blocks are what it changes to.
Has anyone any idea whay setting is messing the block up.
Howard Walker
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Are you talking about the frame? The only difference I see between the three is the text color of the attribute which has been changed in the bottom one within the multiline attribute text editor. What's the issue?
Other than the text string being a different color I do not see anything obvious.
Is that the issue?
Regards, Charles Shade
CSHADEDESIGN | AUTOCAD LT | LT-KB | DYNAMIC BLOCKS
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Did you copy and paste the attribute text from another source, either when you created the attribute or when you changed it's contents, I can't figure out how it was done, but look closely at the properties of the attributes, there is a difference in the formating of the text, that for some reason is lost when you edit the values. I can't reproduce the effect, there must be something in the way either you or your collegue are editing the block that is creating the difference, I have tried all different ways of editing the attribute and importing text, but it has me stumped!
The text changing is the issue. Open the block in block editor and you will see that the text is a multiline attribute. The first part of the text up to and including: should be colour 160(iirc). I then have a tab and hanging indent and the rest of the text is white. Also the height of the text is different as well.
The top two have lost all my formatting changes.
The blocks insert and edit fine (stay as the bottom). It's when they are OPENED, BEFORE any changes are made that the blocks lose the formatting.
And this problem is arbitrary in the same drawing. I can have 30 blocks inserted in a drawing, working fine. Then someone else opens it and 10 of those blocks change and the rest stay ok
EDIT
I suggest if you have access to full Autocad AND LT do the following using Autocad's copy function make multiple copies of the block and save the drawing. The in the other version open the drawing.
As you can see from my first post both versions of the software are 2012
Howard Walker
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Sorry it shouldn't say when they are opened it should say when the drawing is opened
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How are you creating the attributes with multiple formats, I have tried both fulll and LT, when creating the attributes in the block editor it will only show me a basic text editor without the ability to set formats, and when editing the blocks this is the same issue, all taxt reverts to the first format of the attribute. Copying or inserting is fine, it's only editing that makes things change, even attempting to edit the attribute in the block editor makes it lose the secondary formatting.
Got it http://cadtips.cadalyst.com/attributed-blocks/edit-multi-line-block-attributes Attipe needs to be set to 1
Attipe is set to one on both machines. It happens when the drawing is opened BEFORE any editing is done at all.
Howard Walker
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