Added Mtext not showing in Modes Space

[AllenJessup]

I tried adding MText to an existing drawing using both the "T" and "MT" alias as well as typing out MText. The text does not appear on the screen. Using  QSelect and selecting all the MText in the drawing. I can see the Grips for the text. If I select the insertion point grip and drag it. I can see the text while it's being moved. The Mtext already in the drawing shows with no problem.

I've tried: Regen, Regenall, turning Hardware Acceleration off and on, closing the drawing and doing a recover, shutting down the program and opening it again doing another Recover.

I'm using Civil 3D on Autocad 2024.0.1

Dell Precision 7920, Xeon CPU 3.60 GHz
Win 10 Pro, 64-bit,64 GB RAM, Nvidia Quadro P4000
Samsung NVMe 1TB, Toshiba NVMe 512GB, SK hynix SSD 1TB, Samsung SSD 1TB, Samsung SSD 250GB

[cadffm]

And the sample DWG with (only)  one Mtext is where?

[Valentin_CAD]

@AllenJessup ,

Go thru these suggestions:

• Text missing or does not display in AutoCAD drawings
• "Specify Font for FONTALT" when opening drawings in AutoCAD

[AllenJessup]

@Valentin_CAD 

Pretty much tried all that except resetting the program to defaults.

[AllenJessup]

OK. Found the answer. The layer for the MText shows in properties as "use current". The layer I am working on is Current, On and Thawed. So I don't know where that came from. Use Current is now a selection in the in Layer Properties Manager.

[cadffm · Accepted solution]

Wow,

i can not see objects on OFF layers whike dragging.

TEXTLAYER setting is set to "use current"

Set it back to .

[AllenJessup]

@cadffm 

Good call on the TEXTLAYER variable. Not something I would have changed though. I might think that if it were set to "use current" it might actually create the text on the current layer.

[AllenJessup]

Curiously  I opened a backup of the drawing from 2019 and TEXTLAYER was set to "use current". The layer use current didn't exist. MText was create on the current layer set in the drawing.

I opened a backup from last year. TEXTLAYER was set to "use current". The layer use current did exist. Mtext was created on layer use current.

BTW. TEXTLAYER in the current version of the drawing still shows as "use current" 

Command: TEXTLAYER
Enter new value for TEXTLAYER, or . for use current <"use current">:

But MText is now created on the correct layer.

[cadffm]

You can not check this by this way, because the TEXTLAYER command to set the Textlayer variable

will not show the real value "." (stands for clayer), it is displaying as <"use current"> (a layer named "use current")

And you can not see the difference between the value "." (to use the clayer) and the stupid value "use current"

How to Check

Command: (getvar "textlayer")

In the old 2019 file you will see that the value is "." and in your newer file "use current"

>>"The layer use current didn't exist"

No need, Acad creates the "Textlayer" -Layer if not present, try it:

Command: Textlayer<enter>Sunshine<enter>

No Layer "Sunshine" is present

create a Text, check the Layerlist or Layer of this Text, Sunshine is present now.

[AllenJessup]

@cadffm Thanks for going through that. TEXTLAYER is one variable that I've never gone into. Never had the need before. I also found out it can be checked in the Express Tools SYSVDLG.

Seems like this may be a good candidate to add to our acaddoc.lsp