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Mtxt Boxes squeezing text together when copying from one drawing to another

nfoxJ3N5A — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 14:52:32 GMT

Hello. I am having an odd issue I cannot figure out how to solve. When trying to copy text from one drawing to another the Mtxt takes whatever is in the text box and makes it into 2 lines. The text is not set to annotative and I checked all the text sizes and settings and they match between drawings. I cannot figure out what setting is doing this if anyone has seen it. Picture 1 is what the text should look like

and these pictures show what is happening when I copy it

Re: Mtxt Boxes squeezing text together when copying from one drawing to another

rkmcswain — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 15:39:40 GMT

Is the text style in both drawings the same ? Does one have a fixed text height and the other not? Same font?

I can replicate the error by having the same style in two drawings, each with different settings. (The mtext width property is the same in both)

Re: Mtxt Boxes squeezing text together when copying from one drawing to another

nfoxJ3N5A — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 15:41:12 GMT

yeah they had the same text style. IT was the "standard" one that you cannot delete. I checked the settings and it appears they are the same in both drawings. I am not sure exactly why the font is changing we I copied it. I fixed it by just making a new text style and bringing that in.

Re: Mtxt Boxes squeezing text together when copying from one drawing to another

pendean — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 15:47:29 GMT

@nfoxJ3N5A you will need to share portions of both DWG files so we can investigate please.

Re: Mtxt Boxes squeezing text together when copying from one drawing to another

Valentin_CAD — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 16:42:07 GMT

@nfoxJ3N5A ,

This will happen if the Font applied to the Standard Style is different in another drawing - as @rkmcswain mentioned. You just have to pay attention to the details and modify as necessary.

Look at the text from Drawing1 (Using Standard Text Style = Simplex = 0.5 Width) when copied into Drawing2 (with Standard Text Style = Arial = 1.0 Width).

Drawing1

Drawing2