scadline.shx is a normal text font file, not a shape file.
I am so tired of the error message. I am pretty certain it came in when I inserted a site plan from a surveyor into my file.
I can't find a text which is defined to use scadline, so I can't get rid of the reference. sorry, not "can't". should have said "don't know how".
Of course I tried purge.
help?
You first have to see if a STYLE definition exists that uses this font.
Seeing as you have purged the drawing, it would appear that there is some text or dimension style or a complex linetype that is in use that uses the STYLE.
You should be able to see which STYLE uses it. Try and redefine that STYLE to use a font you do have (it must have an icon next to it in the font list).
That does depend on whether they are entitled to re-distribute the fonts in the first place :-)
yes, I understand, but this file is a conglomeration. two outside engineers involved. politics.
besides, the operators involved probably do not know WHEN they invoke the nastiness I am having trouble removing.
THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS THAT THIS HAS BITTEN ME BEFORE - I KNOW I CAN IGNORE IT, BUT I WOULD REALLY RATHER UNDERSTAND WHAT IS BEING DONE TO ME.
knowledge is power.
when autocad loads she does not find scaline, and reassigns it to something, effectively covering her tracks.
I did stuff like
(setq them (ssget "X" '( (7 . "ADCFIXED"))) count (sslength them) )
and targeted text entities which I know came in from "outside". modified some of them, deleted others, purged. tried other likely suspects with the same procedures.....
can't get good old sssget to get a handle on the scaline entites directly, and I am pole axed.
surely somebody here is better than me.....
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