I just got a new computer and installed autocad 2018 back on. when I open my drawings and look at my fonts/text I noticed that some of my fonts/text did not remain the same as they were on my last computer. for example I created a title block and made a writeblock out of it with the font I liked. now when I open a drawing and look at the same title block the font/text has changed, is their a way to have the font/text to come back to what it was on my last computer. also when I open a drawing I get a message box saying "Select Shape File: PLATESYMBOL.shx" not sure what the means and does that have something to do with my font not showing up correctly from my last computer?
For SHX fonts, fire up AutoCAD on the old machine. Say you are trying to find "mycustom.shx". At the AutoCAD command prompt, type in (findfile "mycustom.shx") and it will return the location of this file.
I was able to fix the problem with some help from autoCAD. I wasn't missing a shx file I was missing a true type font in my new autocad I downloaded. so I hooked up my old machine that had the font I wanted in autocad and exported it out of the old cad and into the new one and all my text/font was restored perfectly.
Some of my TrueType fonts won't load in AutoCAD 2011 on Windows 7. Some similar fonts of the same family are loading, but certain fonts (important ones, of course) don't show up in the Text Editor font drop-down menu. I even exported a dwg from Illustrator using the font in question, and it came in as substitued for the default face. Does anyone know what's happening?
They are TrueType, but it looks like they may not be installed correctly. I can see these fonts in Adobe programs, but not other Windows programs (e.g. MS Word). There is no 'install' option on right-click, but Windows tells me the font is installed when I try to install it again.
In Control Panel Fonts, Open the font family in question, then right click and choose properties on one of the icons. Attached is my Chaparall (That Acad can't see) followed by a Bauhaus that Acad _CAN see.
Sorry to resurrect this topic, but I'm having this same issue and it's because the font I want to use is an Open Type Font. Is there any way for me to get this font to work in CAD? Are there any workarounds I can do to get this in my drawing?
Evidently the conversion routine you ran it through created a legit, non-PS outline font, which Acad can read and use. Caveat -- license issues may preclude the use of a proprietary font in a conversion tool like that. For safety, portability (and legality) I always recommend using only fonts that come OOTB in Windows or AutoCAD
I'm just wondering what font your firms use for their drawings in the construction industry. We're a small MEP firm and we currently use Simplex for our drawings. I've never really been a fan and am currently working on getting us to switch to something...more. Our spec on drawings are now going to be Arial (at least for now) because of a change in the way we process those. But that's easy enough to change to a different font in Word.
I use Rhino for my drafting, and for the most part it has been great. However, now that I have to work with others, I am realizing that I have an issue when I export my annotated drawing to autocad. The lines all work fine, but the text is not. It acts as though there is a text box that is too small, and so a single line of text becomes two. This becomes a big problem when I have multiple lines of text (specifying different elements of a structural detail, for example). Not only does it split the single line into two, but it then makes them separate objects. For my own work, I have been exporting the first to a dwg, opening it in illustrator, then exporting an illustrator file and copying all of the text objects and replacing them into the original file. This can sometimes be tedious. The Illustrator export likes to take multiple lines of text and make them one line, but that is much easier to deal with than the dwg export.
@RistPhoto Neither Windows Rhino nor Mac Rhino embed font files in the 3DM file or AutoCAD export files. Font files are copyrighted. For a font to have a chance of being reproduced correctly, the same font file must exist on both the source and destination computer.
Kartina is a Microsoft font, but is not intended for Western languages. It is meant for writing in Malayalam script. Does your client require text written in Malayalam script? If writing in Malayalam script is not a requirement, I would suggest switching to a font intended for western languages.
Kartina is available from Linotype for $49. Did you purchase your Mac copy from Linotype? If you downloaded a different copy from somewhere else, I would not expect a free non-western font file to do a very good job of displaying western characters.
However what ends up happening is that the titles of the columns which are added when the table is created are formatted correctly (Center-aligned, good size font) but everything added after has really small font size. How do I make it so that the font size is the same with each entry added?
Fonts define the shapes of the text characters that make up each character set. A single font can be used by more than one style. Use the FileName property to set the font file for the text style. You can assign TrueType or AutoCAD-compiled SHX fonts to a text style.
Many drawings are now being produced in applications such as Corel
or Surfer, and none of the available Windows fonts I have seen
resemble the Autocad font. Does anyone know of a Windows font
that is a perfect match for the Autocad Simplex font, and how
to obtain it.Please reply by E-mailThanks;
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Nicholas Fitzpatrick (nf...@sentex.ca)
AFAIK, simplex is designed to work with plotters. It is not designed
to look like old hand-drawn stencils, but rather to minimize the number
of moves that a plotter pen has to make in order to minimize the time
needed to make a plot (while still maintaining the legibility of the
drawn letters). (And if you have a slow pen plotter you will know
what I mean: try using duplex or even triplex fonts in plots and you
will notice the time difference.) The name simplex just means "a single
pass of the pen"; so it is not one font, but a class of fonts which can
be drawn this way.--
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Try the True type font called "Monospace 821 BT", which is included in the
r13/common/fonts directory. It also comes in bold and italic versions. It may
not be exactly the same as the roman simplex font, but it comes close.--
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usually i make grammar errors, and i never proof my posts
>On Fri, 09 Feb 1996 18:29:06 GMT, in article , Nicholas Fitzpatrick wrote:
>>We are using an Autocad font which (appears) to be referred to as Simplex.
>>(it's a simple font, that looks much like a child's printing, and was
>>probably designed to look like old hand-drawn stencils).
>to look like old hand-drawn stencils, but rather to minimize the number
>of moves that a plotter pen has to make in order to minimize the time
>needed to make a plot (while still maintaining the legibility of the
>drawn letters). (And if you have a slow pen plotter you will know
>what I mean: try using duplex or even triplex fonts in plots and you
>will notice the time difference.) The name simplex just means "a single
>pass of the pen"; so it is not one font, but a class of fonts which can
>be drawn this way.
Yes, apparently I was misled, the Font is apparently the standard AutoCad
font Romans, as simplex, so I guess we are looking for a
simplex Romans font.--------------------------------------
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I have to ask why?Autodesk probably regret the day they ever produced such an absurd
font anyway. You would probably find it difficult to find someone
willing to put their name to it.
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When using SHX fonts, the Bluebeam plugin will convert these to vector graphics, but when using AutoCAD 2008 and above with Revu 9 and above, there is an option in the Bluebeam plugin to add OCR data to the PDF to make the SHX text searchable.
I would be looking at what your client standards ask for for example our local Rail DOT use TT Arial but the make it act like arial narrow as it was adopted before arial narrow was available... so we have to have different Height to width in msnt but they have different std for acad drgs as thhats another dept with a different font std ( I suspect they cant do differnt height to width in acad)... anyway before you go setting up standards make sure your got the client requirements first as it will drive you nuts later ....
You could also try ISO CAD fonts(isocpeur.ttf) but I would recommend to stick to default Windows fonts like Courier new,Trebuchet MS.
Actually Bentley and Autodesk should have pushed some universal CAD font to Microsoft Windows a long ago. There is no real benefit of using TrueType font if you still have to deliver it seperately. It is at last possible to embed custom linestyles in DGN but not fonts.
Controls the size of the text. If the annotative option is ticked the font will multiply the Paper Text Height by the Annotation scale to insert text at the correct size for the selected scale.
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