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AutoCAD Electrical 2021 - Text and Font Thickness Randomly Started Acting Weird and Thiccc

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 11:52:27 GMT

I got 2021 a few months ago, and sometime after that (not right away), all my text objects suddenly got thick, as if they are block letters with hollow insides and outlines for their bodies. I didn't make any changes to make this happen. One day everything was normal, default, shows as 0 thickness, then the next day everything is all blocky. I can't find anything that is set weird. It does it on component attributes, text, mtext, attributes inside of blocks, myu line numbers, everything. I have all my lineweights set to default, and my default is .13mm (for printing) and I DO NOT have the option checked for displaying lineweight (my assumption is that is talking about displaying the printing lineweight in the actual model space while working).

Please help me, because it's driving me crazy lol.

Re: AutoCAD Electrical 2021 - Text and Font Thickness Randomly Started Acting Weird and Thiccc

rhesusminus — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 12:37:50 GMT

Got to AutoCAD options, and make sure the font mapping file is set to acad.fmp, not acade.fmp:

Re: AutoCAD Electrical 2021 - Text and Font Thickness Randomly Started Acting Weird and Thiccc

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 12:42:55 GMT

Mine is set to acade.fmp so I'll change it and see if that fixes it. Fingers crossed!

Re: AutoCAD Electrical 2021 - Text and Font Thickness Randomly Started Acting Weird and Thiccc

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 12:48:54 GMT

Hey! This worked! Thank you so much. It doesn't particularly matter, but why are the acad and acade fmp files different like that? Do you know?

Re: AutoCAD Electrical 2021 - Text and Font Thickness Randomly Started Acting Weird and Thiccc

rhesusminus — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 13:01:47 GMT

When you publish to PDF, with the "substitute fonts" option on (to create s searchable PDF), they change the font mapping file temporarily to the AcadE.fmp.

Sometimes, they "forget" to reset it back to acad.fmp, hence the random nature of it.

I would consider it a bug, but don't bother reporting stuff like this anymore.

Re: AutoCAD Electrical 2021 - Text and Font Thickness Randomly Started Acting Weird and Thiccc

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 13:04:50 GMT

Great details to have. Thank you for sharing about this. Much appreciated!

Re: AutoCAD Electrical 2021 - Text and Font Thickness Randomly Started Acting Weird and Thiccc

Blackdog9 — Sun, 11 Jul 2021 11:50:41 GMT

Thanks for this information. it saved my sanity

Re: AutoCAD Electrical 2021 - Text and Font Thickness Randomly Started Acting Weird and Thiccc

selijerome — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 14:54:07 GMT

i was having same issue since i reinstalled the autoCAD. Replacing it my acade.fmp works for me too !!

But i changed WD, standard and romans to Arial, ttf. And it worked perfectly.

Thanks.