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My first thought was to try starting a new drawing, but you say that you have already done that.
That should exclude it being layers as you would only have layer 0.
TBH if you can draw circles and...

Are you asking for a general Autocad tutorial?
Learning AutoCad is an ongoing liftime thing.
If you need the basics then here's a good start: https://www.cadtutor.net/tutorials/

I'll assume you...

I'm not sure what you are asking.

If you mean that you want to solid hatch an area but leave certain lines within that area still visible (in a different colour?) then creating multiple hatches...

The white lines on your posted PDF do follow a repeating pattern which shows that it's how the PDF creator is processing the image.
(It actually looks like 3 different repeating patterns but that...

How are you printing to PDF?

I've always found that Autocad's own PDF creation gives missing lines like that (or extended lines) with fills and solid hatches.

For years now I have used a free...

Many baulk at paying for an Autocad subsciption.

I also lost my job, 10 years ago, and if I didn't already have a fully bought Autocad at home wouldn't have been able to afford a subscription.
...

Unfortunately there are no VBA gurus here.

I suggest that you ask over at CADTutors VBA sub-forum: https://www.cadtutor.net/forum/forum/57-net-objectarx-amp-vba/

You will find Tharwat...

Metric sheets are usually specified width x height so A3 would be 420x297.

420x297 should be A3 in Landscape orientation.
297x420 should be A3 in Portrait orientation.

If the layout size is...

Unfortunately not so much these days.

I've removed your email address for your security, it's never a good idea to put it openly where spambots can harvest it and then bombard you with spam or...

Hi,

It sounds like you have turned your groups off.

From an old Lynn Allen blog:
https://lynn.blogs.com/lynn_allens_blog/2011/01/an-autocad-hip-tip-on-textmask.html

That is a pretty old lisp and so may not work with newer versions of AutoCad, commands and variables change over time.

Unfortunately we don't have any lisp experts here at the moment, but I can...

Please do not post your advertisement more than once.

Once is fine for a free service/library, but multiple postings will be considered spamming.

I just noticed that it was one of Lee Mac's lisps, so have edited my post above.

Sorry we don't have any lisp guru's here.

I suggest that you ask on CADTutor where there are some very knowledgeable lisp experts. Including Lee Mac who wrote that one....

It sounds as if you have overridden the Text Style Defaults with specific setting for that particular text entity.

Select the text and 'list' it's properties to see if it is as default or has...

I see that you have already asked this at Cadtutor where ReMark and others have been helping you.

As said there:
Whilst we are happy to give our time helping someone to learn nobody is going to...

Try these 3 tutorials.

The first is about units and scales, the second about dimensioning (and dimension scales), the third is about metric paper sizes and plotting to scale from modelspace.
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LOL tinsmith.

Old School CAD is the 1970s/1980s.

Draughting packages had only one space back then, and you usually drew to scale just like you would with pencil and paper.

Normally you woud put everything except the drawing border in model space and view it through a viewport sized to fit the border.
(But every company has their own way of doing things).

I'm not...

Hi Danny,

This thread is 11 years old, and the guy who was originally asking the question hasn't been on the forum since 2010.

I myself haven't worked since 2011, fo rhealth reasons, so no...

Good to hear that you found the cause.

Had you been running any lisps, macros, VBA, or similar
Odd things like that can happen if you have been running a routine that didn't complete properly (or...

Sorry that those suggestions didn't work.

If you are redrawing then fair enough, it's always an option if time is available.
But it is nice to try and find out what went wrong to avoid it in...

If it's just one drawing then try the commands Audit and Purge on that drawing to clean it up.
Or you could WBLOCK it to create a new drawing which also clears up errors.

I'm not sure about the...

Yes, Autocad has been updated regularly over the years so new features are added along with new commands and variables for those features.

The Autodesk knowledge site, as linked, above, contains...

The dialog may be opening, but off the visible screen.
If that happens then Autocad will 'lock up' until you close it again, which is what you describe.
In which case - press 'esc' to close it...