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Text invisible in layout

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Text invisible in layout

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Since upgrading to 2016, this has been bugging me.  We do a lot of work in 3D and after awhile if I click into a layout to edit dimensions or text the title block is there and the views are there but all of the text is 'missing'.  Actually it's there if I mouse over it and I can click and edit it, the drawings even print fine.  If I close the program and reopen it the drawing is fine for some time again.  2d drawings work fine unless I have other 3d drawings open and those start acting up.  

 

I'm thinking it's a graphics processor thing but I didn't have this problem in the same drawings in 2015.  

 

Any ideas would be helpful!

 

Thanks,

Rob

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rebeca.campos
Alumni
Alumni

Hello rluecht,

 

Thank you for using the AUtodesk forums, My name is Rebeca and I will be helping you with your Service Request.

 

In order to try to fx this issue, please follow the steps in the next link:

 

-Optimizing AutoCAD performance within Windows environments.

 

Also, please check this link:

 

-Forum: Text not displaying in Viewport on Sheet.

 

Please, let me know if my suggestion helped you, or if this is not the case, you can inform it to me so we can troubleshoot this issue in order to help you find the proper solution. 

 



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Rebeca Campos
Technical Support Specialist

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lakshmankumar.satya
Advocate
Advocate

Hi,

 

Is your text annotative.? If so then try command : ANNOALLVISIBLE and set variable 0 to 1. Hope that helps.!

5stringb
Enthusiast
Enthusiast

No nothing is annotative.  It seems to do this with the AutoCAD default "txt" font, which is basically a very thin font made out of line segments.  When I switch to Arial Black font (for the same object), which is thicker, this problem seems to be fixed.  The txt font seems to vanish until I zoom in on it, at which point it becomes visible at a certain zoom range.  This is annoying.  It seems that font choice and zoom range affects whether or not a given text object will render in paper space.

 

Still no solution besides changing the font.  Is this a bug?

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