topic Re: Delete overlapping text in AutoCAD Forum

topic Re: Delete overlapping text in AutoCAD Forum https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/delete-overlapping-text/m-p/5595552#M332918 Welcome to these Forums!   By "overlapping" do you mean coinciding, including having the same content?  If so, the OVERKILL suggestion should work, though if you choose to have it ignore Layers so it will remove all but one, I'm not sure there's any way to give it direction on which one to keep.   An equivalent to OVERKILL could presumably be constructed for the purpose that would look for Text with the same characteristics, and include a "weighting table" in the form of a list of Layer names.  When two on different Layers coincide, the one whose Layer is later [or earlier if you prefer] in the list could be removed.   But if they have differing content, or are partially overlapping but not coinciding, then OVERKILL won't do it.  An image or sample drawing with before and after conditions would be helpful.  A routine would probably need to compare bounding boxes to look for overlap, but would any amount of overlap call for removing one Text object?  Would any of them ever be Mtext rather than Text?  [Mtext's bounding box can extend considerably beyond its visible content, so things that don't look like they overlap could have overlapping bounding boxes.]  The same weighting table could be applied.   Thu, 16 Apr 2015 17:38:33 GMT Kent1Cooper 2015-04-16T17:38:33Z