Delete overlapping text
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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.
Kent Cooper, AIA 
The command TSPACEINVADERS (yes it is a real autocad command) will create a selection set of text that is overlapping, then you just hit delete.
GrantsPirate
Piping and Mech. Designer
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Reading your first post, you said you want to remove overlapping text. TSPACEINVADERS selects all overlapping text, then you just hit delete and they are all removed. How does that not meet what you described? Or did you not explain exactly what you meant by remove?
GrantsPirate
Piping and Mech. Designer
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@Anonymous wrote:
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The solution .... is for Acad to automatically search the drawing for overlaps of the text boundaries. They are not multi-line text, so should be easier. The actual text entry is not relevant. Any overlap of the bounding box would count. As mentioned, I think that a weighting table would be required to provide the decision as to what is deleted in preference to another.
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I attach a 'before' and 'after' screen shot for reference.
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It looks to me as though most of the Text objects removed in the "after" image were on the same Layer as objects they overlapped [same color, at least]. If on the same Layer, and the text content is not relevant, I'm having a hard time imagining what the weighting criteria could be. Also, with the rotations, I can imagine situations in which bounding boxes [which are orthogonal] could overlap even if their text content does not. There are ways to draw a box around Text that could be checked for intersections with boxes around other Text, but that's a lot of work for a routine to go through -- I guess it could be made to do so only as confirmation for pairings whose bounding boxes overlap.
Kent Cooper, AIA
@GrantsPirate wrote:
Reading your first post, you said you want to remove overlapping text. TSPACEINVADERS selects all overlapping text, then you just hit delete and they are all removed. How does that not meet what you described? ....
Doing it that way would remove all of them. They want to keep some of them [see the images].
Kent Cooper, AIA
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Yes, you can do that [pick on the User name at the top left of a Post, and in the page that comes up, over on the right there's a place to "Send this User a ..."]. But just post it [preferably stripped down to just a relevant sub-set of things] here, and more people will be able to take a crack at it.
Kent Cooper, AIA
