Crash Recovery changes all text style

[Anonymous]

My Civil 3D 2015 crashes about every other day. I report almost every one and Autodesk does not bother to respond.

Today when I reopened the files, all entries using Standard Text were changed to True-Type Arial - THEY WERE ALL SIMPLEX!

I go into the drawing Options and find Standard is still Simplex. Now I have drawing sets which in which font varies depending on which drawings I had open when the system crashed!

I have been returning to each drawing for the last few weeks to discover some text was changed, and did not detect the pattern. Today's changed every single entry in the drawing files I had open when it crashed!

The worst part is, I cannot go in globally - the software will permit change to another Style, and to re-select Standard, but no matter what I change or how many times I change it, all the text remains Arial anyway. I must inividually select each Mtext entry, Text entry, and Mleader, Textedit, Select all of the text within, and manually change each array back to Simplex. THIS TAKES A LOT OF TIME!!!

This is the kind of vaporware that undermines productivity - and this project of twenty sheets is due out today! Any ideas on how to restore a few hundred entries without taking three hours of wasted time?

[kcobabe]

Look for a lisp routine that strips all text formatting.  Sounds like it over wrote the font in the text string.

[rl_jackson]

Here's a link for a StripMtext 5, works well.

I would have to agree with kcobabe, sounds like Arial is hard coded in the text. The lisp routine should take care of that.