Little blue rectangles showing up in AutoCAD

[Anonymous]

Hi all,

I've got an issue with little blue rectangles popping up on my screen. I'm guessing it's a graphics issue but I would really love it if they went away and never came back. I'd just ignore it, but the drawings print this way so it's a problem.

-Can't select them.

-They only show up on the screen when I'm zoomed in at a certain distance. Too far in, they're gone. Too far out, they're gone. But there's a "zone" where they appear.

-Model space AND paper space

-Doesn't appear to be Selection Cycling (tried this)

-Doesn't appear to be Infer Constraints (tried this)
-Picture attached

[Alfred.NESWADBA · Accepted solution]

Hi,

>> Can't select them

Interesting, because I think that are grips from selected objects.

Can you upload the dwg-file so we can look into their objects?

What you can try:

• use command _GRAPHICSCONFIG and turn off hardware acceleration ... or
• press <CTRL><A> to select all, are they then visible too?

- alfred -

[pendean]

Fix your file and see if the problems go away https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/AutoCA...

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the reply!

Tried CTRL+A and was able to select them that way. Apparently it was Text objects? Still couldn't zoom in and see what the text was, couldn't select individually to check the Properties, but they're gone now and I will sleep better tonight.

Thanks again!

Sam

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> Apparently it was Text objects?

Unselect the other objects, then you should see in the properties window which type(s) of objects they are.

It might be text-objects, without a content, if so might delete them manually or run command _PURGE and activate open "Purge zero-length geometry and empty text objects".

- alfred -