Autocad always crash when plotting specific file. Help!!!

[Anonymous]

I think my file is the problem because when several of my colleagues attempt to plot, their Autocad also crashes. I try to plot other project files from years ago, and they work fine. Please help. I already did the purge, the overkill, the audit, and the recover, and also deleting unnecessary layers, but it still crashes when I try to plot. I even try to copy paste it to a new file.

I feel like I have to redo the entire project in a new file, and I'm still not sure if I would encounter the same plot

problem or not, and it worries me.

I attached the file and the crash screenshot.

I would really appreciate the help!

[pendean]

Try other ways to fix your files https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/AutoCA...

BTW: your posted file is not ready to plot to anything: so what are you setting the plotter to?
What else do you set on the PLOT command pop-up?

[JamesMaeding]

I narrowed it down to mtext using truetype in a block.

I erased stuff tile the problem stopped, and tested on the stuff second from bottom:

If you erase the backwards J from this block, it behaves:

I noticed several blocks have mtext like that. It seems that the mirroring freaks things out.

Now, I tried cleaning out all the blocks of that mtext, but never got it to all plot at once.

So its part of the story, maybe the important ingredient, but not done.

[JamesMaeding]

@pendean

Easy there, whoa boy.... Until someone has done the "divide and conquer" approach where you erase half, plt, erase more....until you get to a small trouble set, someone should not be touching their environment.

@Anonymous 

I believe you have a fixable issue, do not start messing with outside stuff. I'll continue on this.

[JamesMaeding]

@Anonymous 

I think I found the general problem. That truetype font "Bahnschrift" does not seem to mix with autocad.

Anything that has that will give the exception and crash.

I exploded all blocks and mtext down to regular text (dtext), and could get things to crash with just one piece of dtext using that style.

If I changed the font to arial or other truetype fonts, it works.

The problem here is you use lots of mtext with the style "internally coded" as opposed to letting the style come from the actual text style. You cannot modify that by just changing the font in the text style.

If you do decide on a replacement font, I think you can use acad.fmp to tell acad to substitute another font.

Its a lousy option though as then everyone must have that.

I think I would rather just explode all the mtext in and out of blocks, so the style of the text will rule.

In fact, I recommend you do that. Acad.fmp approach is almost wreckless.

In general, stop using Mtext when Dtext will do. Your drawing does not need mtext that I see.

This is one of those things where autodesk does not give good production advice. They even asked if they could get rid of Dtext entity at one point.