topic Re: mtext in AutoCAD Forum

mtext

dean.mckinney — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 17:49:07 GMT

Howdy

A strange new glitch. New to me anyway.

This only happens occasionally. And it seems to only do it in paper space. I can copy an Mtext or Text, together or separately, from one drawing into another, and it's flipped. Both rotations are 0 in drawing 1. The

Mtext gets flipped but is still at 0 rotation. The Test properties says its rotated 180. Rest of properties are same. I can rotate the copied versions 180 so it reads backwards. Mirror does not change it.

The Text will read correctly if I change properties to upside and backwards. No matter what I try, I can't make it the Mtext to read correctly. I'm 95% sure the two drawings were started from the same template. I can copy them into other drawings just fine.

Anyone ever seen this?

Re: mtext

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 17:52:56 GMT

first thing I would do is ensure the drawing units are the same. Second would be to run an audit on both drawings and try again.

Re: mtext

Kent1Cooper — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 18:08:49 GMT

... and make sure you are in PLAN [TOP on the View Cube] view in the World Coordinate System in both drawings.

Re: mtext

dean.mckinney — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 19:18:04 GMT

This project is in 2D

Re: mtext

dean.mckinney — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 19:27:42 GMT

Drawing units same. Audit showed no errors. This is Text from same template in both drawings. The Text flips whether I'm coping from sheet 1 to 2 or 2 to 1.

Re: mtext

pendean — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 19:28:20 GMT

>>>...This project is in 2D...<<<
AutoCAD is always 3D all the time, no matter what you think you are doing in it: try all the suggested fixes, if you don't understand, please ask.

Re: mtext

dean.mckinney — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 19:33:04 GMT

Right. The view cubes are at TOP

Re: mtext

dean.mckinney — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 20:17:11 GMT

New Text and Mtext also came in flipped in one of the drawings.

I closed the drawing and opened it in recovery, no errors, but it works for now

Re: mtext

Kent1Cooper — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 21:32:18 GMT

@dean.mckinney wrote:

Right. The view cubes are at TOP

You may see the word TOP on them, but that doesn't necessarily mean you're in Plan view. Pick on the word TOP, or use the PLAN command, to get into Plan view, in both drawings, after ensuring both are in the same UCS [preferably the WorldCS], and see whether copying between drawings then works as expected.

Re: mtext

RobDraw — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 10:55:59 GMT

Post the drawings to eliminate the speculation.