AutoCAD Font Issue

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It has come to light that I have an issue with my autocad font.

 

Basically since I have been working at current employers I have been using ISO.SHX (which has been transfered from machine when upgrades have ocured) font and setting it to .8 width.

This has been fine and displayed on my machine perfectly.

 

One of my colleagues from another office has since moved to this office and he has been using an ISO.SHX (from fresh install) which when I put on my machine makes the drawing display incorrectly.

 

See BROKEN-8816R01_.pdf

 

My colleague explained he found the issue when he installed ACAD on a fresh machine that he was using the latest font and it would seem that the rest of the machines whereby the ACAD had been upgraded were still using an old font.

 

This is causing an issue as we both get asked to print each others drawings from time to time and when we open them we get text out of place.

We also have a print operative whom has basic CAD knowledge whom prints drawings out for documentaion and he probably wouldn't notice the problem, so we need to make it so drawings display correctly for all.

 

We have started to use ISOCP.SHX instead which gives us both the same output on new drawings.

 

See FIXED-8816R01_.pdf

 

What I would like to know is is it possible for a way of batch/script changing all our old drawings to use the new font and font settings.

I tried creating a macro but that only takes commands and not dialog box changes. I could probably do it using the filedia command, but we have hundred of directories containing multiple drawings.

 

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

BROKEN-8816R01_.pdf

FIXED-8816R01_.pdf

[dbroada]

this isn't tested but what about...

-style
standard
isocp.shx

[Tiger]

Can you not replace your font-file with his, or vice versa? I know I replace the ISO-font every time I do a reinstall on my or my colleagues computers, we still use the ISO that came with autocad 2000 :wink:

[www.cmorephotos.co.uk]

Can you not replace your font-file with his, or vice versa? I know I replace the ISO-font every time I do a reinstall on my or my colleagues computers, we still use the ISO that came with autocad 2000 :wink:

 

The problem is when you send the drawing out to clients and they are using a new version of the font, all text is then displayed incorrectly.

 

this isn't tested but what about...

-style
standard
isocp.shx

 

How does that help with batch/scripting?

 

At the moment I am labouriously opening each drawing and running the following process.

Style

standard - isocp

ISO - isocp

In PAPERSPACE - select all by dragging a crossing window and then in the properties box at the top changing the selection to MTEXT and making sure font for text is set to STANDARD and then picking TEXT and doing the same

In MODELSPACE - repeating as above.

Close drawing and repeat until all drawings in project folder are updated.

Then move onto next folder.

[dbroada]

what I posted can be used as a script file which would have changed all the text to a different font in any of my drawings. I would run a batch file to open all the drawings, run that script, save the drawing and open the next. At which point I would go home and leave the machine doing the rest itself.

 

You didn't explain the rest.

[www.cmorephotos.co.uk]

what I posted can be used as a script file which would have changed all the text to a different font in any of my drawings. I would run a batch file to open all the drawings, run that script, save the drawing and open the next. At which point I would go home and leave the machine doing the rest itself.

 

You didn't explain the rest.

 

I understand the principal of changing the style will change any font using that style, however for some reason there are issues with the text properties.

When I used to create scripts years ago I would have to manually put the path and drawing name in for each drawing, this is OK when it's one or two folders. I've got nearly 300 folders.

 

I am finding that I have to manually select both the Mtext and Dtext and force the change to some of them.

 

Also in the border we use there seems to be another strange quirk, whereby the font won't register the change unless you physically click on it and change a properties of one piece of text. Then when you exit the Enhanced attributeeditor the text changes to how it should look.