topic Re: Property Manager - Expression Editor - Wrong Font in Project data & BIM

Property Manager - Expression Editor - Wrong Font

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 16:58:52 GMT

When I am within the expression editor and I add an item it comes in with the wingding font!!!
Is there a way to change this?

Re: Property Manager - Expression Editor - Wrong Font

Daniel Kovacs — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 11:10:05 GMT

Hello,

I hope that this issue has already been resolved but if not, then I think it might be because the "Arial Unicode MS" Font (it is a default font on windows, and used by a lot of code editors) is somehow missing from your computer, so it is replaced with the wrong font. If you search for it online, you should be able to download and install this font, which might solve the problem.

We also made an entry on our bug list to resolve this in future releases.

Regards,

Re: Property Manager - Expression Editor - Wrong Font

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 23:42:08 GMT

Hi, we are having the same issue as the original post its a different font causing us issues (really hard to read) we want to change it so its user friendly.

Currently running windows 7 and Archicad 22

We have downloaded the "Arial Unicode MS Regular" and placed it in the fonts folder after reading this post but it did not change the font with in Archicad.

Has this issue been fixed yet or is it coming in the next patch?

Kind Regards
Paul

Re: Property Manager - Expression Editor - Wrong Font

Barry Kelly — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 01:06:41 GMT

Paulr wrote:
Currently running windows 7 and Archicad 22

Windows 7 could be the problem.
Archicad 22 was not tested on Windows 7 although it does seem to run OK.
However, maybe you have found a problem.

If you have downloaded the correct font (for Windows 7), make sure you have restarted your computer.

If that still doesn't work then I would consider upgrading Windows.

Barry.

Re: Property Manager - Expression Editor - Wrong Font

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Oct 2018 01:58:30 GMT

We ended up deleting the Font "Joehand2" that was causing the issue making it revert back to "Arial Unicode" hopefully we don't need "Joehand2" for other programs.

Kind Regards
PaulR

Re: Property Manager - Expression Editor - Wrong Font

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 20:36:09 GMT

Hi! I read all the topic answers, but none of these solutions seems to work with me. I already installed Arial Unicode MS and deleted all script fonts in my fonts folder, but my expression editor still looks like this:

Does anyone know how to fix that? I couldn't find anything on the user guide page

Here is my system information:

I'm using archicad 24, but this problem happened to me when I was using 22 and 23 too.

Vanessa.

Re: Property Manager - Expression Editor - Wrong Font

Minh Nguyen — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 08:39:44 GMT

Dear Vanessa,

Thank you for the report and I am very sorry about the issue!

Unfortunately, if the above suggestions do not help, it is not possible to revert back to the default font now. It was an error with the editor when processing the characters. It is a rare issue, to fix this we will need a big project to revamp the editor. Hopefully, we will be able to fix it soon!

Once again, I am very sorry for the inconveniences. Please let me know if you have any further questions!

Best regards,
Minh

Re: Property Manager - Expression Editor - Wrong Font

Barry Kelly — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 08:48:12 GMT

vanessa-santos wrote:
I already installed Arial Unicode MS and deleted all script fonts in my fonts folder, but my expression editor still looks like this:

Have you re-started your machine?
I just had one of my guys install some new fonts today and Archicad would not recognise them even when re-starting Archicad.
It had to be a machine re-start.

Barry.

Re: Property Manager - Expression Editor - Wrong Font

Anonymous — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 18:41:39 GMT

Yes, i re-started the machine but it doesn't work I even tried to restore windows default fonts

Re: Property Manager - Expression Editor - Wrong Font

Anonymous — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 18:43:58 GMT

mnguyen wrote:
Dear Vanessa,

Thank you for the report and I am very sorry about the issue!

Unfortunately, if the above suggestions do not help, it is not possible to revert back to the default font now. It was an error with the editor when processing the characters. It is a rare issue, to fix this we will need a big project to revamp the editor. Hopefully, we will be able to fix it soon!

Once again, I am very sorry for the inconveniences. Please let me know if you have any further questions!

Best regards,
Minh

Ah, it's okay! Thank you for the reply, i'll be waiting for updates

Re: Property Manager - Expression Editor - Wrong Font

Roger C — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 06:04:50 GMT

I'm having the same problem in both computer I have Archicad installed. This is very annoying, a real pain in the a$$. Both of them are using completely different fonts, and it happens to be that in one case the font used is showing missing characters for operators like < or >.

This has to be fixed ASAP. Properties are a key part of BIM production.

Re: Property Manager - Expression Editor - Wrong Font

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 16:49:10 GMT

This is a serious problem. There is no way to reinstall the system.
I was trying to find this font in windows by appearance.
(The * symbol has 5 rays, the Q symbol has a tail from the bottom, etc.)
Selected only 2 fonts.
But they all support the Cyrillic alphabet.
And it doesn't look like the editor is using an embedded font, because each type of font in the editor is different.
The problem appeared after installing MS SQL Server 2019

As a temporary solution - select text and copy using Ctrl + Insert, edit in notepad, then paste back using Shift + Insert.
Or You can use Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V.

This is how it looks in notepad:

IF ( {Property:Эвакуационный выход - Emergency exit/Emergency exit - Эвакуационный выход}; "EE"; "Не является путём эвакуации" )

Re: Property Manager - Expression Editor - Wrong Font

Roger C — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 09:46:56 GMT

For god's sake. Archicad 25 didn't fix this issue. It's very annoying, very painful and makes working with the expression editor a f****** disgrace.

This should be on the top of the list to fix by Graphisoft

Re: Property Manager - Expression Editor - Wrong Font

Kamil Dylo — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 17:34:36 GMT

Is there a fix for this issue? More than 4 years later and Graphisoft couldn't find the solution? Or didn't even bother to look for one?

Re: Property Manager - Expression Editor - Wrong Font

Josh Verran — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 08:33:43 GMT

2023 here and I have the same issue.

Occurs on my home PC only.

Makes it almost impossible to edit properties.

Would love for there to be a fix.

Re: Property Manager - Expression Editor - Wrong Font

James B — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 14:42:29 GMT

Thanks for the feedback, and yes we're aware of this issue for some users.

We have been (and are) looking at different solutions to this. Unfortunately we can't really fix it directly inside the existing UI control that we are using here - due to some technical limitations. But we are still investigating it, to find a solution.

Re: Property Manager - Expression Editor - Wrong Font

nate-h — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 21:34:36 GMT

Has this issue been resolved? We just ran into the same issue. Only in the expression editor box does this font pop up. Everywhere else, the fonts show up correctly.

Re: Property Manager - Expression Editor - Wrong Font

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 21:27:54 GMT

Which Archicad version?

Also, are you using the latest hotfix/update?