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architxt font replaced by simplex.shx

v_yang84
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architxt font replaced by simplex.shx

v_yang84
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YES, the proper .shx is in my font folder.

 

I've Googled this and no answer has helped me. I believe I have a unique situation so I am here. I am running AutoCad 2017 on two computers with two different programs. One has Fabrication CADmep and one has Trimble PipeDesigner. To make a long story short, we were going to switch from Trimble to Fabrication CADmep.

 

Both are setup remotely and both have the needed font styles in their respective folder. When I open the current file I am working on in CADmep, the font loads up fine. When I open it up on my Pipedesigner, the font is simplex. I can't figure out why it is doing so. When I open the file, it makes all opened files convert their textstyle to simplex.

 

When I close Autocad and reopen it, it paths back correctly to the proper textstyle, architxt, until I open the file that is causing it. I have tried recover and audit and nothing comes up. I tried to copy&paste into a new drawing, but as soon as I open the file, it changes the text on all open drawings to simplex. This ONLY happens to architxt it appears.

 

Any help is appreciated

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john.vellek
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Hi @v_yang84,

 

I see that you are visiting as a new member. Welcome to the Autodesk Community! 

 I don't have these apps but it sounds like fontalt is in play because the one application doesen't like the font or can't find it.

 

Please explain, are all of these running on one computer? Or are they different ones? If they are different machines can you copy the font from the working machine to the one that doesn't work?

 

Does the font work when you are not using the other applications?


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v_yang84
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Hello John,

 

The two programs are on two different machines. I was told that we could run both on one machine but that is not the case unless they are running on different versions of Autocad. This causes me to have two machines running each program separately.

 

The drawing I was working in had no 3D objects in it initially but it still had the problem. I started on one machine and then switch to working on it on the other for fabrication purposes. I can work on the same file on both computers but one is not recognizing the text. I am not sure what you mean by copying the font from the working machine to the one that doesn't. Do you mean copying the .shx file?

 

Let's call my file File A. I can open File A on both computers but only one of them shows the correct text. When I open File A on the other computer that doesn't show the font, it makes all the files, opened already and after, not show the proper font. If I have a file open on the machine that doesn't show the proper text from File A, the text shows fine, architxt, UNTIL I open File A. Once I open File A, it converts all the achitxt textstyles on that machine to simplex. If I create a new drawing or open a file, it all goes to simplex textstyle.

 

I believe it's the file that is causing the issue but how do I fix that file? Recover does nothing and audit doesn't do anything. Are there any other ways to fix the file?

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john.vellek
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Hi @v_yang84,

 

Is it only this one file that seems to cause the issue? Is it possible to attach to a post or send to me?


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It sounds like the font file (.shx) is not in the right directory on one of the machines, or that directory is not noted in the search path.  Make sure BOTH machines have the font (.shx) in the same folder on BOTH machines.  Then in OPTIONS make sure that directory is near the top of the search path.

font.PNG

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v_yang84
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I'm thinking that if that was the case, the font wouldn't load at all in any drawings that I open on this machine. It's not until I open that certain file that the architxt font gets replaced with simplex.

 

I do have that architxt font in that folder. Notice the font preview and the correct font chosen.

 

ARCHITXT.JPG

 

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pendean
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If you had the actual font file and it was not corrupt it would look like my screenshot on the left, not your substitution on the right.

 

Capture.JPG

 

The font file your session of AUtoCAD is finding is garbage: and it may be in another folder AUtoCAd is searching before it gets to the one you think is good.

 

Time for a deep search on your system to delete ALL instances of the font, then replace it with a verified good one from the other computer and place it in the correct folder as noted by others. If it still does not work, you did not do a good job of finding the bad one in the AutoCAD search path.

 

Good luck: no other scenario will cause what you see unless you haven't restart Windows in a few moons and it's about to go south on you.

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v_yang84
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Again, it works in all my other files until I open this certain file that repaths everything to simplex. I noticed the difference in the preview box and that's why I posted it. If it was solely my font file that was messed up, it wouldn't work at all. Process of elimination is leading me to believe it's something with this file but I can't figure out what it is. Why it's doing what it is what I am trying to figure out. It only happens on this machine and this file not, my others.

 

Another thing to point out is that in my previous screenshot, in the STYLES section, the font name is ARchitxt. It's mixed with upper and lower case and although I don't think that matters because I can't rename it or delete it, it is odd. Below is what  my textstyle shows before I open that certain file. I'll find a work around.

 

ARCHITXT2.JPG

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Anonymous
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attach the file

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v_yang84
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Attached.

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john.vellek
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Hi @v_yang84,

 

I don't have the architext font on my system so I can't really test that unless you attach the font as well.

 

I did find drawing errors when I ran Audit.  I also see that you have quite a few styles defined. Is there a reason you have 70+ Arial styles?

 

 

Please select the Accept as Solution button if my post solves your issue or answers your question.


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pendean
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Yep, your file is messed up big time. And once it is loaded, it seems to cripple that font for ALL other files open in the same session of AutoCAD.

Wow! this is an aggressive file bug for sure. Thank goodness a restart of AutoCAD fixed the issue it triggered in all of my other files.

What's the third party add-on that this file has info from? Something like P3D or something (I'm not going to open it again).

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Sorry about that John. Attached is the font file.

 

The file was not created by me so all those textstyles are in there from the architect. I normally go through and clean up files for our use, but opening this file messes up the rest of my Autocad font styles so I'm trying to figure out what the problem is.

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john.vellek
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Hi @v_yang84,

 

It looks like your Add-In adds some Regapps to control the fonts.  I Exporttoautocad and then copied your model (I didn't grab paperspace objects) and put into a new file. I then set text objects to a new text style. I purged and then _purge>Regapps to get of the existing styles. Then I went back to Styles and redefined the Temp style to use the Architxt font. Looks like it is working now.

 

 

Please select the Accept as Solution button if my post solves your issue or answers your question.


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v_yang84
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Thanks John.

 

Now only if that would work for me. I get a fatal error when I try to exporttoautocad.

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john.vellek
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HI @v_yang84,

 

Did my attached file work for you?

 

On your file, try running Audit before you do the -EXPORTTOAUTOCAD to see if that helps


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v_yang84
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John,

 

Thanks for the help!

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Anonymous
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I think something else is going on besides the corruption/non-corruption of the .shx.

 

I have one user who is experiencing this same thing where the preview is displaying in a simplex font, but the file IS found (no warning triangle) and in the correct support path.  There is only one copy of the font on his machine and it is where it should be (which is a "trusted paths").  As part of a company script, all of these fonts in that location are refreshed from a network resource to the user's local c:\.. path every morning when they login.  If the font was corrupt, about 50 users would be having the same problem instead of just one.  This font is used EXTENSIVELY my many users with no problems.

 

I've noticed something odd which leads me to suspect there is something at the users profile level I'm missing.  As a workaround I had him set FONTALT="." (none), and the font displays correctly in the drawing environment, but still not for the "preview" in the STYLE dialog.  I cannot replicate this on any other users machine (mine included).  I'm working on having him compile a list of the individual drawings affected to run them through John's solution above.

 

Anyone have any more ideas?

 

 

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Another interesting development.  Just when I thought I had a handle on it.

 

When a user tries to publish, either through sheet sets, or through one of our company batch publishing .net routines:

These sheet sets are large, but not necessarily overly large individual drawings (estimating 100-150 pages per sheet set), the printing and fonts work as intended for about the first third of the set, but then it reverts to the FontAlt (set to romans.shx). for the remainder of the set.

 

So frustrating to me because this appears to be a "machine" based problem.  I've been unable to replicate it on the terminal I'm using.

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john.vellek
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HI @Anonymous,

 

I am wondering about this refresh of built-in fonts. Can you explain the thinking of that process? I always like to keep "custom" items out of the built-in locations. I add them to their own folder structure and add them to the file paths.

 

You could be having some timing/transfer issues. Is it possible to leave the "refresh" out of the mix for a while on this one or two workstations so it is easier to deduce what might be happening?


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