Bill Tillman Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 I did a couple of quick searches on this and didn't find anything that worked for me. I have a drawing done by another user and she used the archs.shx font. So I got a copy of this font off the Internet and installed it in my AutoCAD font file along side the dozens of other *.shx files which were located therein. But when I open up AutoCAD and try to choose this style it does not appear in the list. Am I missing something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 Did you try exiting AutoCAD then starting it again? Is it a font file or a shape file? Maybe there was something else you needed to download. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Tillman Posted October 22, 2011 Author Share Posted October 22, 2011 Yes, I restarted AutoCAD several times. The file seems to be known as an AutoCAD Compiled Shape File. There are dozens of these *.shx files in the folder where I put this one but only three of them show up in the list to format a text style. So I have some more reading to do on how to get this installed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldon Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 I tried installing the archs.shx font and it worked perfectly for me. I put it in my current AutoCAD Fonts folder, and it appeared ready for use. As it is not working for you, AutoCAD has not got the folder that you put it in on its support path. Are you running more than one version of AutoCAD? It sounds very peculiar that you can see lots of .shx files, but AutoCAD can only see three. I should check again the folder that you put it into. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Tillman Posted October 26, 2011 Author Share Posted October 26, 2011 Can you tell me where you got the archs.shx file? My copy came with a LISP routine I downloaded from Cadalyst website. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldon Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 I put ARCHS.SHX into a Google search, and the first one on the list was the CAD Forum website, where you can download the .SHX file directly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 Here is the link to the site eldon referenced. http://www.cadforum.cz/cadforum_en/download.asp?fileID=746 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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