In the AEC industry the use of RTEXT in AutoCAD is widely used to print information on the drawings. You can read more about the command and entity here: https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2021/ENU/AutoCAD-Core/files/GUID-28585C1C-65B8-41E0-90A3-7C043123EF7A-htm.html
The RTEXT command in AutoCAD creates a RTEXT entitiy that can:
- Show the content in a external txt file
- Show the file name and path to the current DWG-file
- Show the current date and time
- Show the list of the external references (xrefs) linked in the current DWG-file
Right now, FME doesn't support the RTEXT entities. The "Autodesk AutoCAD DWG/DXF" reader just inform that the AutoCAD Reader: Entity type of 'RText' found, but not supported. Skipping entity
The "Autodesk Autodesk AutoCAD RealDWG DWG/DXF" reader reads the RTEXT entities as proxy entities but with no attribute information that these entities are RTEXT entities. (if you have the parameter "Read Proxy Entity Graphics" turned on you get a bounding box and two crossing lines as geometries for each RTEXT entity)
As FME is widely used to make the quality control for these DWG-files we really need support for reading RTEXT entities.
