Annotation Problem

I had a problem with annotation, Our Engineer who is not familiar with AutoCAD made a changes by himself, then when I open it, All Block text got wild I mean all Block texts are small or huge, if you click them they have annotation of all such as scale of 1:1, 1:10,1:201:1000 and more? Now I did some changes but when I open it, it comes back the same-- small and huge Block Texts? Is there any solution on these problems, Thanks in advance. We have to submit dwg files this project in City Permit and to Hydro Company. And also If I do Published it will show up small tect and big text(Block) But if I do single printing it's good to go?

Not to be a smart-ass, but it would seem that the obvious solution to the problem is to keep those who are not Autocad literate from working on the drawings.

Might you have an earlier .bak file available, which you can access and put back into service?

You only have this problem in one drawing? Do you mean that if you print it/them individually, they look fine?

If so, that may be the easiest way to go, very hard to know without actually seeing the .dwg file or files.

No matter how you solve it, clearly the engineer needs to be made aware of the problem his involvement has created, lest it happen again.

This is not the first time He(Engineer) used the AutoCad 2018 to Modified our drawings, He just a Stupid Junior Engineer , sorry for my wordings, I sent a message to the Owner of the company that he should not be working with this kind of work, He should be working in designing. If I gonna open the back up files BAK file it will be a more work for me because I had Modified a lot of the designed he made, the Senior Engineer just gave me the mark ups and I did changed all of he's Design so I cannot use the BAK file . I can print it individually after I changed all Blocks Texts but if I gonna use the command PUBLISH , it will not let me print a good drawings , All texts were scattered and small texts. These drawings have 8 sheet, which is very tedious work. All drawings were a huge messed. I can't attached the files here because it's company Policy and confidential. I 'm thinking of saving as in 2017 because I did read some of the Problem here are kinda matches what happen to my drawings. AutoCad 2018 have a BUG. Or just that the Engineer really don't know what he's doing?

I hope someone can help me Thanks.

Your signature says that you are suing 2009 LT, perhaps you should change that, as it sounds like you are using 2018?

Glad you told the owner.

Should you want to save as Autocad 2013, try doing it on a COPY or copies of your drawings, just to err on the side of caution.

Check where you set your temp files to be written to it may be deep under your \user\xxx etc but you may find a lot of .bak files you can rename these to .dwg and open, we have our temp set to c:\acadtemp easy to find and clean up.

Use wblock and just cut a bit of the problem dwg without to much compnay info, else use copy clipboard and paste to a default Autocad template we need to see what he has screwed.

No matter how you solve it, clearly the engineer needs to be made aware of the problem his involvement has created, lest it happen again.

Around here they call this a "teachable moment." If the engineer is going to keep interfering this way, he needs to know what he's doing. Management should understand that he's causing as many problems as he's solving. Find out how he messed up the annotation and show him how to do it correctly.

Yes I did save as to 2013 and open it in Version 2017 that's solved the Problem looks like 2018 Version had a Bug in it? But if I go in Model space there's still some texts that are still small and big as well. But if I Publish , there's no more problem it maintains it's heights. Thanks.

Don't want to teach a hard headed Engineer, but this afternoon He just heard my side about Annotation Scale that It must be in gray color or Off before changing all the text or copying and modifying it. he might get what I talking about.

Don't want to teach a hard headed Engineer, but this afternoon He just heard my side about Annotation Scale that It must be in gray color or Off before changing all the text or copying and modifying it. he might get what I talking about.

He might have gotten it, but just in case he didn't, I would suggest that you keep a safety file in a different folder from the one which he might open, in your absence.

In that way, should he mess up another time, you still have a workable file saved as a backup, in a location where he won't be going fishing for files to mess up.

Better safe than sorry.

If he messes you up once, shame on him, if he does it twice, shame on you.

Glad you seem to have gotten back on the tracks.

I place my completed files on the server, but I work on my local drive, and every week or so I copy everything to my personal network folder, so if some yahoo messes up one of my drawings, I have a backup. This doesn't apply to any drawings I haven't personally worked on, though in theory, IT should have these backed up as well.

A .bak is useless if they save the drawing more than once, you would have the same problem to clean up as in the .dwg.

One place I worked, the files were only accessed fully by one or two people on the network, so you would have to do a Save-As to your Local drive, then they had a folder on the network for them to approve any changes.

Thanks for advised, I always back up my drawings but the one he messed up is his drawings (He started working in it) , The Senior Engineer just asked me to fixed it. Then it becames my work after fixing it. I do saved my drawings in my Hard drive and my Stick , wherever goes wrong I have my Back up files.

Thanks for the info , I usually do what you had advised. Is just this Engineer was really head ache, I did told them last year don't messed around with drawings when you are not familar workig with AutoCad. He started the drawings and gave it to me for fixing what a DUMB BOY!! My thoughts about how he ended damaging the Cad files was that he maybe tried to fix the Block text or adding something in it, after saving it maybe the Annotaions Scale at the lower portion are open, so when he save it all the text absorbed all the annotation scale BOOM , it whack the entire drawings.