Cannot Select Text

[dswinty]

I am using 2007 and cannot seem to select some text items. Happens in mt and dt in existing drawings. Anyone run into this before?

[ZenCad1960]

Give a little more background... What layer are they on? Are they on the defpoint layer? If so is the 0 layer turned off or frozen. That could be one cause.

[dswinty]

They are on a separate text layer and pickfirst is on 1. All layers are on and not frozen. None of the selection commands or picks works on this text.

[Alan Cullen]

Could you post a section of the drawing so we can have a bit of a play with it.

[ZenCad1960]

the next guess is:

is the text in model space, and you are in paper space looking at the text through a viewport?

If you can post the example we can find out more!

[dswinty]

Here is the drawing. Said text is on the left in model space. Left it there to get it out of the way. Hopefully it is still in the same condition after uploading.

I appreciate the help!

[ZenCad1960]

Here is the drawing. Said text is on the left in model space. Left it there to get it out of the way. Hopefully it is still in the same condition after uploading.

I appreciate the help!

is it the two lines of text over on the left? the one line is:

* BRONZE ANODIZED OR PAINTED TO RESEMBLE BRONZE ANODIZED?

[ZenCad1960]

If they are it, I can select, edit delete and move them no worries. If these are not it, please let me know where they are so I can find them.

[dswinty]

Those were the ones. Must be something with my computer and not the cad.

Thanks again, I will try some other ideas.

[ZenCad1960]

I deleted just one of the lines of text, purged and audited the file. See if you can delete the other line.

[ZenCad1960]

helps if I upload the file..... LOL

[dswinty]

No, I can't do anything with it. Will try rebooting after I get done with this project I am working on.

Will let you know what happens.

[Alan Cullen]

I could select everything, too. Just a suggestion, I think you should lock your viewport.

[lcurle]

go to your layer manager and change the color of the text, it will unlock and you can delete the text you dont want

[TJ-13]

ZenCAD,

I've come across this error as well. If you get rid of / explode all of your tables, you will be able to select the text again. Don't ask me why... but something about the tables is the cause of the problem.

[NAILER20]

go to your layer manager and change the color of the text, it will unlock and you can delete the text you dont want

you are spot on about changing color of text w/in layer manager

Q why does this happen in 1st place seems every release is getting buggier and buggier and why is adesk impossible to find any help with these kind of glitches better yet fix em when they are discovered
sorry now ranting
but thanks again about work around

[NAILER20]

ZenCAD,

I've come across this error as well. If you get rid of / explode all of your tables, you will be able to select the text again. Don't ask me why... but something about the tables is the cause of the problem.

V2k2 had paste special %%product entites not perfect but worked better than table feature in 2007-Acad lays down vectors Word processes words excell processes data Acad should keep it like that. I imported table data form excel and it locked up random text elements in drawing on top of having to do a lot of tweaking of imported table to get it formated right
i'm not against change and improvements and v2k7 is great but why not just keep features from say previous major release and then include the new stuff

[Grigs]

I have had issues with being able to highlight text. What I have to do is, while in model space, hit ctrl-A and select everything then hit the delete key and immediately do an undo.

[testov]

Try from menu View-> Visual Styles -> 3D Wireframe (copy and paste text and then return again to 2D Wireframe - the new copy must be OK)

[Tongwang]

try this

(command "move" "all" "" "" "")

[stuie444]

I hate to wake an old thread...but i'm having a similar problem and for the life of me cannot find a solution...

This was drawn by a co-worker. I cannot select/delete random objects throughout the drawing...no layers are frozen/locked, I have purged/audited/cleaned up the drawing file...

I can use "select>all" in the command line and delete that way, but not through the drawing window. I have tried to explode tables, remove attributes, and wblock out to a new drawing with no results. Whenever I Wblock using "select all" and write a new drawing, I am able to select everything until I regen, at which point random entities become un-selectable again...HELP!

Most of what remains in this drawing are entities i cannot remove...anybody?!

**Edit**
Forgot to mention this file has been opened on multiple computers with the same result...

[Tek_Elach]

This worked for me.

1. Go to model space.
2. Right click an empty area and select "Quick Select"
3. Set Object type to "MText" and Operator to "Select All" and hit "OK."
4. Press Control + 1 to bring up Properties Window.
5. Scroll down Properties Window to Z position and input 0.00