Text style keeps changing on me

[EdWidy]

This has happened in a couple of drawings now. The STYLE dialog keeps saying "The current style has been modified. Do you want to save your changes?" even when I have changed nothing at all. Anyway, I select the style I want, hit Apply and  Set Current, and put in some text. Now I list that text, and sure enough, instead of being on L80 it says L-BASE|Standard or some such thing. If I use DTEXT, Style and set it there, my text will be the correct style - but if I go back to the Style dialog box, L-BASE|Standard will show as current again. What gives? Acad C3D 2011.

Ed

[tcorey]

Hello Ed,

Can you purge?

Sounds like a style that came in from an xref. Is that reference still attached? Close the current drawing and then use Recoverall. That will recover the container drawing and all references. Did that help?

Tim

[EdWidy]

Nope. I tried that then even went to all of the xrefs and WBLOCKed everything out to make new drawings. Still have the same problem I'll just chalk this up to a minor annoyance. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

One in a great while a client’s AutoCAD file will be infected with a long list of Text Styles that I cannot delete.  The file size is too large and text editing is very slow.  I have the fix.

First, go to the folder in explore so you can see the autocad files

1.) Open infected autocad file

2.) type the "dxfout" command and it will prompt you to save as an AutoCAD Interchange file.   Give it a random name like  XXXX because you will delete it in the very end.

3.) Now close the infected file and open that file XXXX

4.) Purge (that will remove the long list of Text Styles).

5.) SaveAs over the infected file and Whalla!