autocad 2016 - weird text issue

[tsdrafting]

I am getting this issue more and more. I will be working on a drawing, and when I open a new existing drawing, all my text that is not "standard" get's a squished look (see attached).  I circled in yellow the  normal "before and after".   

IF I zoom on my squished text, it is non-legible.  I have to close Autocad completely and restart it to have the text go back, as a regen does not work.  Anyone else out there having similar issues??

[john.vellek]

Hi @tsdrafting,

Is this happening with all text or just a specific font?  Do you think this might be related to hardware acceleration? It might be worth checking in GRAPHICSCONFIG.

Please eTransmit a sample file and attach it to a post so I can take a look.

Please select the Accept as Solution button if my post solves your issue or answers your question.

[pendean]

You probably need to set this to something other than 1:1, like in the "good" drawing

[tsdrafting]

John,

This happens to random files - and always a specific text.  I have attached an image of my "bold" text that this affects.  Also attached is a copy/paste of my graphics config.  I can post the file if you want, but it is random files, not any specific one, so i am not sure if it is font specific, or hardware specific.  If you want a file, let me know and I can email you my default file I use for all my drawings.

Thanks

Tony Sterba 

[Mark_C_123]

When it happens, just to be clear - it only happens to that specific arch font that you use. And all the other text/fonts are fine? 

[john.vellek]

Hi Tony,

Did you check to see if the text style is annotative? If so, as @pendean suggests, perhaps you need to assign another scale to it.

If this is not the case, please send me a file with the problem in it so I can look.

[tsdrafting]

I just did a properties on my bolder text - and it is NOT annotative.  The next time this happens, I will switch that function to "yes" and see if it makes a difference.

Thanks for pointing that out. 

Tony S.

[tsdrafting]

Ok, so this is still happening.

It seems like when I leave my computer for a while, and it goes into sleep mode (not sleep mode - but the hard drive sleeps - windows 7 Pro is still running), and I start back up again - it is the first drawing I open that this problem happens too.

 In the 2 jpgs posted, the "problem" one is version where text are shown as flat cyan lines, the arrow heads are empty, my area "polyline" is hollowed out, and my architectural ticks on my dimensions are empty as well.  When I close autocad down and restart the program again - the problem goes away.

Also, when I opened my drawing and it was buggered, I clicked on the buggered text, and changed it to annotative - it did nothing.  I did a screen regen - nothing.  I have to close and restart autocad.

I'll be honest - it is not the end of the world.  So I close, shut down and restart - big deal!  I am just posting this to see if there is a solution.  If no one has an answer, and this is the worst problem I deal with in a day... it's still a good day.

Just for the sake of asking - the f2 key and the text window disappearing or getting stuck behind the autocad window.  I have googled this to death - tried everything, and it still does not work.  Again.....save, close, re-start - problem goes away....

I am posting the file in case a hardcore user can tell me what I am doing wrong.  It only seems to be the bold text that goes wonky on me.

[john.vellek]

Hi @tsdrafting,

What graphics card do you have installed? I am curious if this is a driver issue.

[tsdrafting]

video card is all up-to-date with the latest drivers

[Vinayv4v]

Hi,

Try to Turn on your FILLMODE Variable <1> and regenerate the drawingwhen the problem is occuring. Run an AUDIT command to fix if it has got some errors.

Seeing line type in your drawing

Before 

After Error

Or some Lisps may be running in the background which make changes in some of the system variable.

Just a suggestion.

[barry2104]

I've noticed the same Problem on various files I'm working on/with since upgrading to AutoCAD2016.

I run about 50 Lisps on Startup.

A restart of AutoCAD is the only fix I have come up with for now.

Hardware seems up to date.

anyone else experiencing this or has a fix?

[tsdrafting]

Hey Barry2104, I still have the same problem... just happened again two days ago.  You are correct, just have to close Acad and restart it.  Seems to fix itself - but sort of a pain.  I have researched this and found no solution as of yet... so it might just be the way it is.