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[Panic980]

So my colleague is having this problem with texts in progecad. All plain texts convert to blocks upon saving a drawing.

Also, all MTexts get converted to plain text. Currently he is using 2025 version, but he had same issue on previous versions also.

Could it be windows? 

Anyone had this kind of problem? It is a problem because other users usually must use his drawings and then fix all above mentioned issues!

Thank You 

[GLAVCVS]

Strange
Have you loaded any new lisp routines etc... lately?

Edited February 28 by GLAVCVS

[BIGAL]

I wrote a reactor lisp that trapped close and save and did stuff, sounds like something similar, @GLAVCVS has hinted where to look, in Acad there are like 4 places code can be loaded from, Acaddoc.lsp, acad.lsp, Appload start up suite, mnl files. Not sure about Progecad, Do a GOOGle find out where files can be loaded from on start up.

[Steven P]

Off topic slightly, did a LISP a while ago "Mess this up" - as described - subtly alters the drawing so you can't tell on a printed copy or PDF but... I'll have to remember text to blocks and explode mtext.

 

As above, if it is an isolated case, just your colleague then it is their installation or any add-ons - could be LISPS - first point would be to stop any autoloading of LISPs (autocad's appload menu), then to the generic ones like acad.lsp acaddoc.lsp

[Panic980]

On 2/28/2025 at 1:50 PM, GLAVCVS said:

Strange
Have you loaded any new lisp routines etc... lately?

No, i’m not very skilled working with lisps. But it’s strange that he has same issue on every version. And just him. Can problem be that he has another cadlike software installed, for cnc programing?

[GLAVCVS]

26 minutes ago, Panic980 said:

No, i’m not very skilled working with lisps. But it’s strange that he has same issue on every version. And just him. Can problem be that he has another cadlike software installed, for cnc programing?

 

@Fidelojo

I admit that I don't know anything about ProgeCAD. But if I were to analyze this problem in AutoCAD, I would check, as @BIGAL says, the lisp files that are loaded when opening each drawing (in AutoCAD: 'acaddoc.lsp' and 'acad####.lsp'). It seems that it could be a reactor like 'beginClose' or 'endClose' that are executed when closing a drawing.
To find out if there are reactors try to run in the command line: '(vlr-reactors)' and press ENTER

If you get something other than nil, you may have found the beginning of the solution to your problem

Edited Tuesday at 09:36 PM by GLAVCVS

[BIGAL]

One way to check all your lsp files is to use FINDSTR a windows OS command, you go lower left search and type CMD this puts you into old fashioned DOS mode. You can change directories and search that directory for a word. use CD\ as start  just  type "D:" for other drive etc

 

 

This will search all of the drive 

C:\>findstr /s reactor *.lsp

Be patient takes a while.

[SLW210]

You might try working on their computer and saving the file to see if it is something in their process/workflow or at least observe them and their process/workflow.

 

I would eliminate operator error first and wouldn't take their word for it they are doing it correctly.