AutoCAD 2008 Annotative Text Bug

Posted June 10, 2008 * Comments(6)

I’ve noticed a bug in AutoCAD 2008 that causes annotative text to disappear or become unselectable. This is very annoying, but there is a temporary fix.

Type AUDIT on the command line and then type Y to fix any errors it encounters. This will make the text selectable again – at least until you save the drawing. It seems this fix is very temporary and is not a permanent solution.

To address the problem with annotative text becoming unselectable when you save, set SAVEFIDELITY to 0.

If your annotative objects are not set with the drawing’s current annotative scale, they will disappear. Set ANNOALLVISIBLE to 1 to see ghost images of all annotative text in your drawing.

I turned these commands into a button macro to make it easy to check/fix a drawing with problems:

^C^CAUDIT;Y;SAVEFIDELITY;0;ANNOALLVISIBLE;1;

I hope Autodesk comes out with a permanent fix soon.

6 Comments so far

  1. the taco on July 9th, 2008

    Has there been any news on this yet? This bug is driving me absolutely insane, and is actually causing me to bill extra time to a project since my leaders keep losing their associations with text.

    Annotative text is sweet when it works, but I’ve had to reopen my drawing about 25 times today just to get the bugs to clear out. Audit only works 50% of the time, plus I hate typing Audit every 5 minutes.

    Autodesk REALLY needs to fix this.

  2. Josh Jones on July 9th, 2008

    I haven’t heard.

    Did you set SAVEFIDELITY to 0? This solved the problem for me in AutoCAD 2008.

  3. Julio Ramirez on August 7th, 2008

    Typing Audit and setting it to Y, worked fine for me. I was able to erase the annotative text style. Thanks!

  4. Lazy Drafter » Annotation Settings in AutoCAD 2008 on August 8th, 2008

    [...] SAVEFIDELITY to 0 (zero) I mentioned this in a previous post: to address the problem with annotative text becoming unselectable when you save, set SAVEFIDELITY [...]

  5. Aaron on October 26th, 2010

    I have a problem where my text frames keep disappearing. I tried all of these possible solutions and still nothing worked. Is there any more on this?

  6. Donna on July 5th, 2012

    I am having trouble with an annotative block I created. It is working on all but one computer in my office. It is a room tag, with 4 lines of text, and a box around the room number. The text will scale, but the box comes in larger. This only happens on one computer. Any ideas?

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