scadline.shx is a normal text font file, not a shape file.

roy

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Jun 25, 2006, 10:40:09 PM6/25/06

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I am so tired of the error message. I am pretty certain it came in when
I inserted a site plan from a surveyor into my file.

I can't find a text which is defined to use scadline, so I can't get rid
of the reference. sorry, not "can't". should have said "don't know how".

Of course I tried purge.

help?

Ian A. White

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Jun 26, 2006, 4:08:32 AM6/26/06

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You first have to see if a STYLE definition exists that uses this
font.

Seeing as you have purged the drawing, it would appear that there is
some text or dimension style or a complex linetype that is in use that
uses the STYLE.

You should be able to see which STYLE uses it. Try and redefine that
STYLE to use a font you do have (it must have an icon next to it in
the font list).

CHARLES FLEMING

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Jun 26, 2006, 11:42:21 PM6/26/06

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First thing I do is contact the person that sent me the fill to have them
send me the appropriate fonts.
Then if you used it on separate computers where other operators could access
it place it on theirs also.
Chuck
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Ian A. White

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Jun 27, 2006, 1:02:08 AM6/27/06

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On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 03:42:21 GMT, "CHARLES FLEMING"
<mie...@verizon.net> wrote:

>First thing I do is contact the person that sent me the fill to have them
>send me the appropriate fonts.
>Then if you used it on separate computers where other operators could access
>it place it on theirs also.

That does depend on whether they are entitled to re-distribute the
fonts in the first place :-)

roy

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Jun 27, 2006, 8:23:49 AM6/27/06

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yes, I understand, but this file is a conglomeration. two outside
engineers involved. politics.

besides, the operators involved probably do not know WHEN they invoke
the nastiness I am having trouble removing.

THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS THAT THIS HAS BITTEN ME BEFORE - I KNOW I CAN
IGNORE IT, BUT I WOULD REALLY RATHER UNDERSTAND WHAT IS BEING DONE TO ME.

knowledge is power.

when autocad loads she does not find scaline, and reassigns it to
something, effectively covering her tracks.

I did stuff like

(setq them (ssget "X" '( (7 . "ADCFIXED")))
count (sslength them)
)

and targeted text entities which I know came in from "outside". modified
some of them, deleted others, purged. tried other likely suspects with
the same procedures.....

can't get good old sssget to get a handle on the scaline entites
directly, and I am pole axed.

surely somebody here is better than me.....

R.K. McSwain

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Jun 27, 2006, 11:35:36 PM6/27/06

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FWIW - "scadline.shx" is supposed to be a shape file (at least the
"scadline.shx" that I know about - used in Carlson software).

I'll bet this is what happened - someone had this drawing without the
shape file, and they got tired of the "missing shape file" prompts, so
they took a file like "simplex.shx" and copied and renamed it as
"scadline.shx" to satisfy AutoCAD's complaining about a missing shape
file. But now, instead of complaining about a "missing" shape file, it
recognizes that the "scadline.shx" that it finds is a font file, not a
shape file - hence the message.

Check out http://rkmcswain.blogspot.com/2006/02/select-shape-file.html
for some tips on purging shape files.

--
R.K. McSwain
http://rkmcswain.blogspot.com