Exploding Mtext makes result scaled down and thrown across the screen

Greetings,

I am not what you would call a noob but I am self taught. This being said, I have been playing with Autocad for about 8 years now and I use it daily at work.

I am trying to explode some text using txtexp. When I do that, it does explode but it scales it to just over 1/25th the size and sends it off to the upper right of the screen.

This doesn't happen EVERY time but there is no rhyme or reason to it. I tired Autocad 2004, 2006, and 2007. I tried individual texts and multiple.

Here is a couple photos of the issue:

BEFORE

AFTER - You can see the text in the upper right corner as a bit of a white blur

Is the font you are using a .ttf? Txtexp doesn't play well with .ttf fonts, especially if it is mtext.

Is the text annotative?

Is the text annotative?

Pardon my ignorance but what is that?

Pardon my ignorance but what is that?

Pardoned.

Command: 7 LIST 1 found

                 MTEXT     Layer: "0"
                           Space: Model space
                  Handle = 45299
            Style = "EXISTING"
       Annotative: Yes
 [color=Red]Annotative scale:  1" = 100'[/color]
Location:        X= -3983.37  Y=  2682.91  Z=     0.00
Width:                0.00
Normal:          X=     0.00  Y=     0.00  Z=     1.00
Rotation:           0d0'0"
Paper text height:          0.08
Model text height:          8.00
Line spacing:    Multiple (1.000000x =      0.13)
Attachment:      TopLeft
Flow direction:  ByStyle
Contents:        text

I do not think so.

list
1 found

                 MTEXT     Layer: "0"
                           Space: Model space
                  Handle = cb
Location:        X=  11.9031  Y=  17.6513  Z=   0.0000
Width:              2.0000
Normal:          X=   0.0000  Y=   0.0000  Z=   1.0000
Rotation:                0
Text style:      "Standard"
Text height:        0.1750
Line spacing:    Multiple (1.000000x =    0.2917)
Attachment:      MiddleCenter
Flow direction:  ByStyle
Contents:        {\fSwis721 BdRnd BT|b0|i0|c0|p34;HOUSE BATTERY\PVOLTS}

I do not think so.

 

list

1 found

 

MTEXT Layer: "0"

Space: Model space

Handle = cb

Location: X= 11.9031 Y= 17.6513 Z= 0.0000

Width: 2.0000

Normal: X= 0.0000 Y= 0.0000 Z= 1.0000

Rotation: 0

Text style: "Standard"

Text height: 0.1750

Line spacing: Multiple (1.000000x = 0.2917)

Attachment: MiddleCenter

Flow direction: ByStyle

Contents: {\fSwis721 BdRnd BT|b0|i0|c0|p34;HOUSE BATTERY\PVOLTS}

It's not. Doh, I didn't even pay attention to what version you were running. I'm dumb.

Could you get away with exploding the text the executing TXTEXP?

Thats what I used.

I tried just x and I tried the Express, Text, Explode Text (which I think is the same as TXTEXP)

Thats what I used.

 

I tried just x and I tried the Express, Text, Explode Text (which I think is the same as TXTEXP)

No, I mean to just EXPLODE the MText first (becomes Text). Then TXTEXP them.

Ok, when I EXPLODE the MText, it turns it into the Standard style. I changed the style to the font I want and used the TXTEXP command but it does the exact same thing.