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Corrupt Text while exporting to Autocad

Anonymous
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The Chinese texts are normal in Archicad, and corrupt while exporting in Autocad. Any help!

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Anonymous
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Kent wrote:
The Chinese texts are normal in Archicad, and corrupt while exporting in Autocad. Any help!
Srinivas
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I guess it is not corrupted but the problem could be that Autocad may be missing the Shx file. Although I never had experience with Chinese fonts, I believe, coping the Chinese font shape file (SHX) into AutoCAD font search path (C:\Program Files\AutoCAD 2XXX\Fonts). ArchiCAD should save a shx file while saving into AutoCAD

Also check that the path is available in the following location, under the Options command < Files tab < Support File Search Path < C:\Program Files\AutoCAD 2XXX\fonts.

Hope this helps.
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ArchiCAD since v9 to latest
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Anonymous
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The fonts is not missing. I could type the Chinese words correctly in the Autocad with the same fonts.

Thank still for your answer.

Actully Autocad have the fonts.
Srinivas wrote:
I guess it is not corrupted but the problem could be that Autocad may be missing the Shx file. Although I never had experience with Chinese fonts, I believe, coping the Chinese font shape file (SHX) into AutoCAD font search path (C:\Program Files\AutoCAD 2XXX\Fonts). ArchiCAD should save a shx file while saving into AutoCAD

Also check that the path is available in the following location, under the Options command < Files tab < Support File Search Path < C:\Program Files\AutoCAD 2XXX\fonts.

Hope this helps.
Srinivas
Booster
I haven't got any Chinese Fonts on my PC to test this, when you open the autocad drawing that you saved from ArchiCAD it will ask for a shx file to load, did you try loading the shx file archicad saves along with the dwg file?
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ArchiCAD since v9 to latest
iMac, Windows 10
Anonymous
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Finally I figure out how to solve the problem. I have to choose the CHINESE_BIG5 which is the right Text Encoding.

Srinivas wrote:
I haven't got any Chinese Fonts on my PC to test this, when you open the autocad drawing that you saved from ArchiCAD it will ask for a shx file to load, did you try loading the shx file archicad saves along with the dwg file?
Anonymous
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Kent wrote:
Finally I figure out how to solve the problem. I have to choose the CHINESE_BIG5 which is the right Text Encoding.

Srinivas wrote:
I haven't got any Chinese Fonts on my PC to test this, when you open the autocad drawing that you saved from ArchiCAD it will ask for a shx file to load, did you try loading the shx file archicad saves along with the dwg file?