topic Re: where does on aquire .shx files? in Collaboration with other software

where does on aquire .shx files?

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:17:59 GMT

The engineer that I work with has AutoCAD, and for years when I get a document back from him, the font among other things is funky.

Where does one go to get .shx files? On the Autodesk site, it names numerous .shx files that are royalty free and sharable.

I am getting frustrated looking for them on Google. Most of the sites look like they would easily give me a virus or trojan horse.

Any help? Thanks.

Re: where does on aquire .shx files?

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:26:49 GMT

Just google "simplex.shx download" (or "roman.shx" etc). There's lots of places to find them.

Re: where does on aquire .shx files?

Link — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:49:37 GMT

Surely the best place to get the SHX files is from your engineer? Especially if he's the one who originally created the fonts, linetypes, symbols, etc that they refer to.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: where does on aquire .shx files?

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:53:31 GMT

Thanks. It seems almost arbitrary in what .shx it asks for. Today it wanted txt.shx, I found that, downloaded it,and opened it, then it wanted Bigfont.shx, which I can not find.

I will go get simplex and romans, and see how that works.

Re: where does on aquire .shx files?

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:58:17 GMT

Link: I tried that last week. He is kind of old school, still does his drawings by hand, and he wasn't quite getting the whole concept of sending them to me.

I am curious though; This does not come from him. It happens whenever I save as a DWG. This is solely from Archicad. Maybe I am doing something wrong?

Re: where does on aquire .shx files?

Link — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:42:24 GMT

Jeff wrote:
I am curious though; This does not come from him. It happens whenever I save as a DWG. This is solely from Archicad. Maybe I am doing something wrong?

Well, this is bordering on my experience of saving SHXs out of ArchiCAD and perhaps Thomas or Djordje or others could give better advice, but what do you have set in your Font-style conversion settings of your DWG Translator?
Perhaps try emptying the list completely and re-exporting it?
It may be worth setting up a separate translator purely for saving DWGs so that ArchiCAD doesn't attempt to save SHX files on the way out.

As SHX files can be used for complex linetypes (and fills?), the same may also apply for Linetype-linetype conversion and Fill-hatch conversions, I don't know for sure.

Let us know what works for you.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: where does on aquire .shx files?

Karl Ottenstein — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 04:19:06 GMT

On the finding shx fonts question (not the export issue), Djordje pointed out here:
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=101387

that you can download the free DWG TrueView application from Autodesk to get them. This is what I did after he posted that tip several years ago. After installation, TrueView creates a folder containing all of the common shx fonts. I dragged a copy of it to my resources folder for future use.

Cheers,
Karl

Re: where does on aquire .shx files?

Laszlo Nagy — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 10:58:38 GMT

One can also obtain the fonts if he/she downloads and installs the latest trial version of AutoCAD. They will be located in one of the folders AutoCAD creates during installation.
But I think the DWG TrueView install is lighter and faster.

Re: where does on aquire .shx files?

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:03:37 GMT

O.K., I have downloaded and am using (it's been a long time, I've forgotten most of it) the trial version of AutoCAD 2011 for MAC, and I can see all the fonts and .SHX files under Format > Text Styles, but for the life of me I can not find a folder under Autodesk.

I would use their viewer, but do not have a program to run windows at this time. Any other suggestions?