AutoCAD 2007/2008/2009 DWG Format

[#1]

Someone sent me a regular .dwg file that must reference "scadline.shx" somewhere. It slows down the open for each file (12 files) because it wants me to specify the location of the .shx file upon open. The person who sent it to me does not know what it is and none of my in use text styles reference it. I've purged everything available. Any suggestions on how to remove this broken link, where the link may be, how to fool it by pointing to a different .shx file, or perhaps saving another .shx file as "scadline.shx"? I don't know how to do any of those, so if someone does, please let me know. Thanks.

[#2]

Man, I would love something like this, I get sick of getting files with
shape references in them, and no shape files to be found.

[#3]

See this
http://rkmcswain.blogspot.com/2006/02/select-shape-file.html

Murph
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wrote in message news:5183195@discussion.autodesk.com...
Someone sent me a regular .dwg file that must reference "scadline.shx"
somewhere. It slows down the open for each file (12 files) because it wants
me to specify the location of the .shx file upon open. The person who sent
it to me does not know what it is and none of my in use text styles
reference it. I've purged everything available. Any suggestions on how to
remove this broken link, where the link may be, how to fool it by pointing
to a different .shx file, or perhaps saving another .shx file as
"scadline.shx"? I don't know how to do any of those, so if someone does,
please let me know. Thanks.

[#4]

I have recently discovered that sometimes it's looking for a "big" font. Use
the STYLE command and check each text style defined in the dwhg. Uncheck,
Use Big Font. This will eliminate the search in some cases.

wrote in message news:5183195@discussion.autodesk.com...
Someone sent me a regular .dwg file that must reference "scadline.shx"
somewhere. It slows down the open for each file (12 files) because it wants
me to specify the location of the .shx file upon open. The person who sent
it to me does not know what it is and none of my in use text styles
reference it. I've purged everything available. Any suggestions on how to
remove this broken link, where the link may be, how to fool it by pointing
to a different .shx file, or perhaps saving another .shx file as
"scadline.shx"? I don't know how to do any of those, so if someone does,
please let me know. Thanks.

[#5]

Good point, TRJ. Only problem with unchecking big font is that some people use the bigfont feature for keyboard accessible special characters. Might muck up some other things

Same basic problem, not sending all the goodies along with the drawing.

[#6]

Tamilio said the following on 5/23/2006 9:38 AM:
> Someone sent me a regular .dwg file that must reference
> "scadline.shx" somewhere. It slows down the open for each file (12
> files) because it wants me to specify the location of the .shx file
> upon open. The person who sent it to me does not know what it is and
> none of my in use text styles reference it. I've purged everything
> available. Any suggestions on how to remove this broken link, where
> the link may be, how to fool it by pointing to a different .shx file,
> or perhaps saving another .shx file as "scadline.shx"? I don't know
> how to do any of those, so if someone does, please let me know.
> Thanks.

BTW: "scadline.shx" is a shape file used in Carlson products (SurvCADD,
Carlson Survey, etc)

As Murph said, see
http://rkmcswain.blogspot.com/2006/02/select-shape-file.html for some ideas.



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

[#7]

I got the same problem but I've solved it. Hope this attached can help.
cheers.

[#8]

go here and download the file http://update.carlsonsw.com/kbase_main.php?action=display_topic&topic_id=538

save and point to it when asked for it

[#9]

DOWNLOADED, PROBLEM SOLVED. 

[#10]

SCROLL DOWN TO 3-16-2010 AND DOWNLOAD THE .SHX FILE.  PROBLEM SOLVED.