Text temporarily disappearing

[Rooster]

I've searched all over the internet and previous forum topics but have not come across a solution to my problem...

 

Having previously never had an issue with this, all of a sudden when I am moving/copying/rotating text within a drawing the text disappears whilst the move/copy/rotate command is active. Once I click to place the text it then reappears in the new position. The problem is that I struggle to place it in the new position that I want because I can't see it until I complete the command. The same thing is now happening to two other users in our office, so this would seem to either be an AutoCAD system setting, or perhaps a template issue??

 

This is happening with both AutoCAD 2025 and 2026, but until a week ago never had this problem before. It's driving me crazy, so any suggestions would be very very very much appreciated! Thank you...

[SLW210]

Certain drawings or all of them?

 

Try DRAGMODE = Auto

 

Text, MText or both?

 

Have you tried turning Hardware Acceleration OFF?

 

It could be a font issue, template issue or maybe a graphics card/driver issue.

 

Maybe a RESET to Defaults will fix it.

[Rooster]

Thanks for the reply.

 

This happens to both Text & MText.

 

Dragmode is currently set to Auto. I have turned off Hardware Acceleration and it made no difference. Fonts haven't changed from when it was working before (and I'm just using standard Arial font, nothing exotic)...

 

I'm obviously reluctant to reset to default settings unless I really have to!

[Rooster]

One other piece of information - this only happens when working in 2D Wireframe mode. If i switch to any other view mode (Conceptual, Hidden etc) text doesn't vanish. Maybe that will help narrow down the issue...?

[SLW210]

Can you post a .dwg?

 

Have you tried an Audit?

 

Does this happen in a new drawing with just Text/MText?

 

Paperspace and/or Modelspace?

 

Any Windows updates recently?

[CyberAngel]

Does it happen with every piece of text, or just sometimes? Could it be only the rotated text? I had that issue when I turned off the MTEXTFIXED setting.

[Rooster]

Thank you both...

• Audit - 0 errors found, 0 errors fixed
• Happens to text/mtext in both modelspace and paperspace
• Happens to new text/mtext in blank drawing also
• Happening to every piece of text (not just rotated) - moving or copying also results in this behaviour. When I move/copy/rotate the text vanishes, and all I see is a point at the insert point of the text
• Yes, Windows updates recently happened

This doesn't seem to be a drawing-specific problem (as it's now happening in every drawing). Nor is there a problem with the text objects themselves, as the problem only occurs when working in the 2D Wireframe visual style (which is what I use 90% of the time). I can't think of anywhere in AutoCAD, though, where one would make changes to how the different visual styles display objects...???

Edited 6 hours ago by Rooster