SHX vs TTF fonts in CAD
Here are two important things to know about SHX vs TTF font usage in AutoCAD/BricsCAD.
Tag Archive: Font
Missing Fonts in AutoCAD
So you open an AutoCAD .DWG file and you notice some of the text does not look like you expect. Maybe a paragraph that is supposed to show up with a script font like FreeStyle Script, is instead showing up…
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Text hard to read in the Civil 3D text component editor?
A common problem we see in Civil 3D is hard to read text in the Text Component Editor, as shown here. This can be caused by a feature in Windows called ClearText. Here is how to change that setting. Note that…
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Bad definition of XX at line XX of file xxxxx.lin
Here is a unique situation that I have run across a few times recently. We have one shape file that we use for all of our complex linetypes. It’s name is “my-custom,shx”. Suddenly one day, a user cannot load linetypes,…
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