Importing Text Spreads Out

[JFelix]

Hey,

 

I'm importing Site plans from an engineers Dwgs. into mine. when I start adding my home and cleaning up the dwg. the text spacing keeps spreading out. I've adjusted the width factor in my properties box and that seems to work, but very annoying that I have to do this with every piece of text in the DWG. This just started happening about two weeks ago... And not sure why.

 

Does anyone know of any simple Solutions.. ??

 

Thanks

[neko]

so long as you can isolate all the text*, you should be able to select them all at once, right-click and go to PROPERTIES (or type PR), then change the width factor for all of them at once.

 

strange problem though.... could be a font issue.

 

*try the new tool 'SELECTSIMILAR' if you are using 2011.

[JFelix]

Thanks for the reply Neko,

 

I'm currently doing it as you suggested, but wishing there was another solution. I guess It is a little quirk in the system that I will just have to live with. I think that it has to be some text setting that the engineer is using and it isn't following over through the my copy paste step..

 

It is a strange issue... Oh well.. I guess.

[Peter M. Gruhn]

Or use Quick Select.

 

If it's an ongoing issue I'd think a little lisp ought to be able to make it a one click job.

[Peter M. Gruhn]

I wonder if it has something to do with style names being the same and over riding.

 

What format are the engineer drawings? How do you import? At exactly what point do you see the text change?