Annotative Text in Civil 3D

[BoarsNest01]

We are currently making the jump from Land Desktop 2007 to Civil 3D 2010. The biggest challenge for us is that we have older drawings that we have to maintain/update so we want to bring everything up to the new standard of "Annotative Text". We have drawings that are quite large (17 MB) so trying to "quick select" or "filter" for "TEXT" generally ends in Fatal Errors. Basically all that we are trying to do is check the "Annotative Box" in the Properties menu to "Yes" (when text is selected). I have already gone through and edited all of the Styles to become "Annotative", so all of the new text would be fine. Does anyone have a LISP routine, or any ideas how we might be able to handle this?

[Tharwat]

Hi.

This would filter all Mtext(s) and text(s) in your drawing quickly .

(sssetfirst nil(ssget "_x" '((0 . "TEXT,MTEXT"))))

Regards,

Tharwat

[BlackBox]

My two cents...

...Code removed...

[BoarsNest01]

Tharwat & Renderman- Thank you for your responses. Tharwat your routine works on the smaller drawings but it errors out on the larger ones. Renderman- I have not been able to get your routine to work, I get the following error:

;error: Exception occurred: 0xC0000005 (Access Violation)
; warning: unwind skipped on exception
; error: Exception occurred: 0xC0000005 (Access Violation

Any ideas?

Is there any settings I can change within Civil 3D or my computer that will give Civil 3D more memory so it doesn't error out in these large drawings?

[BlackBox]

...
Renderman- I have not been able to get your routine to work, I get the following error:

;error: Exception occurred: 0xC0000005 (Access Violation)
; warning: unwind skipped on exception
; error: Exception occurred: 0xC0000005 (Access Violation

Any ideas?
...

Strange ...

[Tharwat]

May be the quantity of TEXTs are exceeded Autocad Sys Vars limitation. !!!!

[BlackBox]

Having read through several other threads, it appears that changing the style is not the solution I believed it to be.

In the mean time, using Tharwat's line of code, then manually changing the property will work. I'll try to find something more helpful programmatically.

[BoarsNest01]

RenderMan- No Dice. I have also checked other drawings and it doesn't work in those either. I am sure its a setting on our end. Frusturating!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Tharwat]

This may also help you but with TEXTs only, MTEXTs are excluded.

It would select TEXTs according to the Text Style "STANDARD"

(sssetfirst nil(ssget "_x" '((0 . "TEXT")(7 . "STANDARD"))))

Regards,

[BlackBox]

RenderMan- No Dice. I have also checked other drawings and it doesn't work in those either. I am sure its a setting on our end. Frusturating!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe this will help:
http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=84883

I'll check back when i have more time.