Globally Change Spot Elevation Format in AutoCAD

[GrahameB]

We regularly get surveys from our clients sites and overlay the file supplied on to the site layout. Unfortunately the format of the spot elevations on this particular survey has a rectangle around the elevation. When printed, we just get a solid black rectangle. Without exploding every single spot elevation, changing the colour of the text and then deleting the rectangle, I'm hoping there is a way to rectify this more efficiently. I don't know who did the survey as it was provided by the client.

Appreciate any support.

Thank you.

Grahame Booth

AutoCAD 2020

[GrahameB]

We regularly get surveys from our clients sites and overlay the file supplied on to the site layout. Unfortunately the format of the spot elevations on this particular survey has a rectangle around the elevation. When printed, we just get a solid black rectangle. Without exploding every single spot elevation, changing the colour of the text and then deleting the rectangle, I'm hoping there is a way to rectify this more efficiently. I don't know who did the survey as it was provided by the client.

Appreciate any support.

Thank you.

Grahame Booth

AutoCAD 2020

[Jeff_M · Accepted solution]

Attached is a small lisp that will cleanup the anonymous blocks. It removes the solid hatching and removes the color definitions from the MText in those blocks. It then performs a REGEN to display the changes. Note that it does take a few moments to run, so be patient. Command name after loading it is removehatchfromblocks

[GrahameB]

Absolutely brilliant!!!

Thank you so much.