Unselectable Attribute Text

[Bobzy20]

I wonder if anybody can help me with this text issue I’m having. See DWG attached.

 

The text has been exported from a custom program we use in our office to a DWG file. When you open the file you can see the text but it’s un-selectable. If you regen the page the text disappears in model space but you can still see the text in paper space.

 

Ctrl-A will select all the text but I’m unable to copy the text out of AutoCAD due to an error called: copy to clipboard failed.

 

If you Ctrl-A the text and bring up the properties, it shows as an attribute.

 

Take a look if you can.

SB-LS-TL.dwg

[Dana W]

The only things I found different is that I cannot select ANY of the text at all, under any conditions whatsoever, with any of the selection commands and techniques.

 

I get the warning upon opening that it is not an AutoDesk drawing.

 

Also, if I change the value of the sysvar's FRAME, or XCLIPFRAME, the text image either blanks out or comes back, depending on whether it was gone or there, respectively.

 

I am completely mystified.

 

My diagnosis is that the drawing is broken.

 

It appears that the only information in the drawing is where the text is supposed to appear on the screen, and nothing else.

[Tyke]

If you open the drawing and immediately export the drawing as a MicroStation V8 DGN, accepting all the defaults that appear and noting where you saved it to. Then in AutoCAD not from the open file dialogue but from the AutoCAD icon at the very top left of the AutoCAD window select from the open option then open DGN item and select the DGN file and open it. It's an old trick to sort out problems that I used many years ago, if you have LT you could also try opening it there, that sometimes works too.

 

The drawing now has all text as blocks, but there are multiple blocks on top of one another and all blocks have an insertion point of 0,0,0. There are over 1000 blocks in there and they are all anonymous blocks. If you select all of the blocks and explode them, they are then text entities and stay on their original position. I suppose you could save this drawing a s a WBLOCK and insert it into your drawing and then explode it.

 

It's a real mess. What software produced this DWG and have you used it successfully before? If so the question is, what did you do differently this time?

[Dana W]

Yeah, suspected Microstation, but don't have the tools to investigate it.

[Bobzy20]

Thanks for the answers.

 

I may have to get the code in our software altered so it exports normal text or mtext.

 

Thanks for your help on this.