Squashed text

[G-Man]

Ive recently started using Auto CAD Mechanical 2013 (product design suite) and have been having real issues with certain types of text. Either when opening up an existing drawing or by pasting text.

The text characters overlap each other. This can be resolved by changing the line type width factor from 1.00 to 1.01 which seems stupid.

This does not happen with all text.

Has anyone had similar problems, any fixes?

[toberino]

Just a thought....since all geometry has an x, y, z. Maybe the z is not set to zero???? I had a similar issue with a line type that had text in it that was snapping to a z coordinate that was not zero.

[Alex Moiceanu]

Have you tried to refresh the text('REFRESH' or 'REA' at command line).

[G-Man]

Thanks toberino but Z is already set to zero. Its must be somethig to do with the width factor as when you go in to the text style editor and change this it corrects the problem. But surely i shouldnt have to go into this and change it everytime i open a drawing. bizarre

[G-Man]

Have you tried to refresh the text('REFRESH' or 'REA' at command line).

Does not work, if only it was this simple.

Thanks

[Dadgad]

Welcome to the forum.
I would suggest that you set up your current TEXT STYLE defined WIDTH as.9,
and include the TEXT STYLE definition in your default .dwt template, assuming that you probably use one.

Are the texts which you are copying annotative?
In model or paperspace?
You should be able to select all of the TEXT items, I would use my QUICK PROPERTIES palette to filter select those,
and confirm, or adjust all of their STYLE settings to be your desired STYLE.

[G-Man]

Welcome to the forum.
I would suggest that you set up your current TEXT STYLE defined WIDTH as.9,
and include the TEXT STYLE definition in your default .dwt template, assuming that you probably use one.

Are the texts which you are copying annotative?
In model or paperspace?
You should be able to select all of the TEXT items, I would use my QUICK PROPERTIES palette to filter select those,
and confirm, or adjust all of their STYLE settings to be your desired STYLE.

Thanks Dadgad,

I have set up my DWT as suggested,

The text styles are not annotative.

The problem occurs when opening supliers, customers drawings that previously used to open fine in AutoCAD lt 2009. Its already slightly annoying that everytime i open a drawing that i have to enter the text style editor and change it to 1.01 or 0.9 etc..i.e. something different from the std 1.0.

Is there a way of changing the text settings of drawings that are non native ie someone else has created, in the main options maybe?

Thanks

[Dadgad]

There is no way to do it in OPTIONS, nor with system variable settings that I am aware of.
Like I said in my last post, I would change the STYLE or the WIDTH in my QUICK PROPERTIES palette as shown in the image.
My guess is that if you just change the STYLE to match the one in your drawing, that the width issue will be resolved without further heroics.
I suppose you could create an ACTION MACRO to do this with the ACTION RECORDER in your right click shortcut menu, that would be quite simple, or add a lisp to your startup suite to do it.
I would probably still do it as shown, as it only takes a second to do it this way.

I understand full well your frustration at having to do anything at all, as you did not previously have this issue with 2009.

[G-Man]

There is no way to do it in OPTIONS, nor with system variable settings that I am aware of.
Like I said in my last post, I would change the STYLE or the WIDTH in my QUICK PROPERTIES palette as shown in the image.
My guess is that if you just change the STYLE to match the one in your drawing, that the width issue will be resolved without further heroics.
I suppose you could create an ACTION MACRO to do this with the ACTION RECORDER in your right click shortcut menu, that would be quite simple, or add a lisp to your startup suite to do it.
I would probably still do it as shown, as it only takes a second to do it this way.

I understand full well your frustration at having to do anything at all, as you did not previously have this issue with 2009.

Okay thanks Dadgad,

I guess im going to have to do that for now, until there is a better resolution.

Maybe I need to swap back to AutoCAD LT !! LOL

Thanks

[SLW210]

Can you post a drawing with text that gets "squashed"?