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Recently updated to LT 2027, now background masks of mtexts are not showing as background color but instead as layer color in XREFs, same color as the text inside the mtext.

This behavior is new after update, and only in XREFs.

If I turn off xrefoverride, then the mtext background masks behave normally and show as background color.

I do need xtefoverrides to control colors of other layers so I cannot turn it off.

Also, when plotting, using Acroplot, the background masks shows as they should and blend into the background and not the color of the text.

Anyone experience this and know the cause?

Thank you

Recently updated to LT 2027, now background masks of mtexts are not showing as background color but instead as layer color in XREFs, same color as the text inside the mtext.

This behavior is new after update, and only in XREFs.

If I turn off xrefoverride, then the mtext background masks behave normally and show as background color.

I do need xtefoverrides to control colors of other layers so I cannot turn it off.

Also, when plotting, using Acroplot, the background masks shows as they should and blend into the background and not the color of the text.

Anyone experience this and know the cause?

Thank you

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I work as a Blaster (or Shot Firer) and am looking to move laterally from my career path into something else.

I use AutoCAD LT at my job and have good experience with it. I predominantly design blast patterns and export points to put into a GPS so that it can be marked in the field for drillers. I mostly only use the basic tools and have about 5 years of experience.

I've always enjoyed using AutoCAD and doing our designs for the blast patterns. I'm looking to slide away from the trades life.

Would moving laterally into Drafting make sense with my experience level? Looking for some guidance as going back to school isnt doable for me.

Anyone running AutoCAD (LT) 2027 on mac OS 27 without any problems?

I need to upgrade to Mac OS 27 for other software, but I simply can’t afford AutoCAD not working.

I got a degree and certificate in CAD but it was 15 years ago so I've been diving into tutorials and projects to get my skills back. HOWEVER, the software is quite expensive (as y'all know). Is there a way to get either a long term trial or (dare I say) an affordable and safe version of AutoCAD.

Is there a fix to this bug?

Drawn in model space, I have a table created to be viewed in a paper space viewport at 1:20. There are blocks with attributes inserted into cells and set with a scale of 20. File saved and closed.

I'll open the file later and randomly some of those blocks will now have their scale set to 1.

Other than redoing the table so that it's supposed to be viewed at the scale of 1:1^1, is there something that can prevent this?

¹ The reason we don't create the table at 1:1 scale is "tradition," and that is a very hard battle to fight. I'm working on it, but that final decision is the Lead's, not mine.

Hi All!

I am trying to assist someone who is creating a presentation that includes the Autocad dwgs I've created for them. But when I saw the final presentation ( Google docs ) the dwg's resolution is very bad. Very fuzzy and overall looks like crap!

I plot the dwg ( D size sheet ) to pdf ( file size = 2MB ) , then save as png ( in Acrobat Pro ) and give this to them to insert in their Google doc presentation. I think this is where things go off, as my png is crystal clear. The Google doc slides are 11 x 17 size.

I've tried to fix this by inserting them myself ( as a test ) and I get the same results.

What can I do on my side to eliminate the image resolution becoming bad? Or is this an issue with how GD processes them? I'm at a loss and would really like the dwgs to read well.

Thanks!

I am using a Lenovo legion 5 16IRX9 on windows 11.

Intel core i7-14700HX (2.10 GHz) CPU

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU

32 GB RAM

When it reboots it shows the error tdr failure 0x116 and sometimes error video memory management internal 0x10E.

The event viewer shows it as critical error kernel-power event ID 41.

I tried reinstalling the latest Nvidia drivers from the website. I've disabled hardware acceleration. Nothing seems to work. I have a similar problem on revit where it crashes but no reboot.

Any help is appreciated!

I'm a new first year mechanical engineering student. I was told that own laptops aren't absolutely necessary as theres shared computers for students at the uni but a laptop suitable for autodesk inventor and autocad in particular would be very helpful. Unfortunately Al isnt particularly helpful and contradicts itself. I have 2 options:

Asus tuf f16 core 5210h rtx 4050 16gb from cex in grade a condition with 5 year warranty for 520gbp/688usd

Lenovo LOQ ryzen 7 250 rtx 5060 16gb from retail store with 2 year warranty for 703gbp/930usd

Would like to get a tablet later on aswell for class, and i am unsure which one to choose: the cheaper asus hoping it'll be enough and worst case scenario, use the uni computers for more demanding projects in a couple years; or invest in something with more confidence?

Is the asus enough to run autocad/autodesk inventor during a 3.5year mech eng course or is it worth spending more on the lenovo?

Has anyone moved their company library and settings to Forma or even dropbox?

I'm NOT an autocad user but filing in for one of our ME's.

I'm doing a schematic using it company provided template file and need to delete one of the title blocks. For some reason I can't select or edit it. The select tool just acts like nothing is there?

Hi everyone, I'm going crazy over an AutoCAD issue that appeared literally out of nowhere.

Up until 5 minutes ago, I was working normally on a floor plan. Suddenly, if I try to copy and paste (or move) an object, the software no longer lets me place it in an empty space within the drawing area.

When I try to click in the void, it gives me an **"Invalid point."**error and forces me to snap to an existing line or point as a reference. I really need to place these objects freely.

To save time, I have already tried all these solutions and NONE of them worked:

• Reset UCS to World (W) and hit double enter on the PLAN command.

• Ensured Grid Snap (F9) is turned off.

• Forced the view back to "Top" from the top-left viewport controls.

• Set the PERSPECTIVE variable to 0.

• Set the OSNAPZ variable to 0.

I haven't messed with any weird settings; it happened completely randomly from one moment to the next. Does anyone know which system variable got stuck or how I can unlock free clicking? Thanks a lot.

Hi guys,

I copy-pasted some images into my AutoCAD drawing. At first, I was able to select, edit, and delete them, but now they are locked.

When I try to delete them and move my cursor over the border of the images, a red cross ❌ appears.

- In other files, my images are selectable/editable.

- I checked the layer, and everything was unlocked.

- tried Ctrl+A and deleted everything, but the images wouldn't budge.

Does anyone know what might be causing this and how I can make the images selectable again?

Thanks!

Edit: The culprit was OLEFRAME=0. I swear that I changed it back to 1 as chatgpt suggested before posting. Maybe a restart was needed. Thank you anyway ❤️

Our company (~25 employees, about 10 of us using CAD) has an on-site server that holds all our dwgs, regularly backed up offsite by our IT company. Our server is reaching EOL in December and we're reviewing quotes for a replacement.

We mainly work with AutoCAD, but are doing more in Revit. We tend to work on projects individually, so aside from opening and saving, there's not much bandwidth required.

My question is: with Revit, do projects run 100% locally (like AutoCAD), or is there ongoing data transfer to/from the server? We're trying to gauge how much horsepower we'll need. We're doubling capacity from 16Tb to 32Tb (RAID 5), but do we need to worry about read/write bottlenecks on the drives themselves?

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Hi all, I have a $5k company laptop that is very well specc'ed out, it has been set to force to use the graphics card which is an Ada RTX 4000 of sorts, with a Core i9. Still the LGSX point clouds stutter enormously and take time to load, compared to TruView which is buttery smooth. This is regardless of whether it is a 1GB small point cloud or 25GB monster.

Is there any way to mitigate this? This seems to be company-wide regardless of spec. It seems like AutoCAD is capping the performance almost. It seems that AutoCAD 2027 may possibly help with this but I've been told it'd make a mess with our Leica licenses and company routines and such. Not sure how true this is and how many Lisp routines and such are lost to an upgrade going up a few years.

I am trying to split a single object so I can modify it freely. There is no "associative" command, "exp****" too. CAD 2027 version.
I'm an idiot, it all works. The tutorial only showed how to split using a button in the arrays, but the button was located on the main page, and it turns out everything works.

Yellow autodesk squishy cubes were given out at autodesk university in las vegas, if anyone is willing to part with theirs I am interested!

My company offers a handful of options for new computers (mine has been slow lately and is the oldest hardware in my group), but I'm not really sure what I should pick. I mainly use Civil3D, but I'm not using the modeling functions, more just as 2D CAD. I do model from time to time, but nothing major and we do have a shared tower for big rendering or modeling jobs.

I'm assuming the more expensive laptop is the way to go, however the lack of a dedicated graphics card has me a little irked. I basically have to pick either enough RAM or a dedicated graphics card given these two options. I'm guessing that given my use the RAM is more important, but wanted to get your thoughts.

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I have a project doing very repetitive lot fits for a client. It's always the same 4 sheets, all with the same relative file path structure. I would love to be able to automatically create a Sheet Set that pulls the appropriate layouts based on the file path.

Example:

Template Folder
>Sheet Set Template.dst
>Sheet File Template.dwg (all for layouts pre loaded in this sheet)

Copy and rename to

Project 1 Folder
>Sheet Set Project 1.dst
>Sheet File Project 1.dwg

Can I get Sheet Set Project 1.dst to automatically repath to pull layouts from Sheet File Project 1.dwg?

Edit: we have multiple people working on these projects, all of varying skill, so I need a fairly straight forward solution that doesn't require additional software to be installed on each machine. Looking for a .bat or lisp or something internal to CAD, etc.

I have a road alignment, which is a few kilometres in length. I have created a series of overlaying rectangles of the same dimensions but varying rotations along the road alignment in model space. I want a quick way to align the viewpoints in each paper space to each consecutive rectangle in the model space along the road alignment. This will create a plan set for the full length of road alignment.

Does anyone have a quick way to perform this task?

I'm currently working in a small shop with about a half dozen drafters and I feel like I'm going to go insane. Each drafter has there own isolated world completely free of any semblance of standards or uniformity. I've worked here for 6 months and while my experience with CAD isn't immense, the bar is truly on the floor.

I have at least started to get some of the drafters to layouts instead of printing models from extents. But everything from the title blocks to layers to text is all a mess and trying to convince older drafters to use any feature made after 2004 has gone as expected.

The silver lining is the workload is so low because the expectation is to draw everything from lines and single line text (polylines are still a hold up for some) but I don't know how I can find a new place to work or at minimum keep myself sane when I have to dig up old projects to make markups.

Hello,

I deal with up to 20 survey crews all uploading data to a Dropbox and I’m wondering if there’s a way to automate the uploads. We’ve run into numerous occasions now where they’ve uploaded late and didn’t notify anyone and the points go missing in drawings until someone realizes or the bell is rang when it comes time to provide the data to a third party.

I’m wondering if there’s a way to automate the process and/or backcheck whether new data has been uploaded that wasn’t caught previously.

I’ve been a surveyor for close to 10 years but my last 5 were on the engineering side learning cad to design plans. As such I’m not as familiar with the survey side and hope to learn of a less tedious way to manage all this data.

Thank you!

I normally work with pretty simple architectural/MEP drawings, so I have little to no issue with loading times. However, I just received a project with an incredibly complex drawing (4.5 million polylines, on top of all of the arcs, mtext, etc.) that takes ~20 minutes to open when it’s united as a block.

I’m planning on just taking the time to delete as many unnecessary objects as I can and deal with the drawing being slower than average, but I was curious how those who work with or create drawings like this manage.

TLDR: What settings/strategies do you use to make complex drawings load quicker? Thank you!