Laser Products Support » CAD http://laserproductsus.com/wiki World Leader In Digital Templating Tue, 21 May 2013 17:30:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 AllenCAD Fonts Not Appearing http://laserproductsus.com/wiki/allencad-fonts-not-appearing/ http://laserproductsus.com/wiki/allencad-fonts-not-appearing/#comments Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:10:46 +0000 Admin http://laserproductsus.com/wiki/?p=225 If you have entered fonts onto your drawing but when you open them in AllenCAD they are missing, this is because rarely a zero length font file gets created. This causes fonts to appear to be infintecimally small. To correct this issue, follow the steps below.

  1. Navigate to C:\Program Files\Allen Datagraph\AllenCAD
  2. Search for *.shx in the AllenCAD directory
  3. Sort by size and delete the zero length file named “txt.shx” located in the bin sub directory.
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Customization file loaded successfully. Customization Group: ACADLT
Customization file loaded successfully. Customization Group:
AUTODESKSEEK Improper table entry name ORCHID_FAUCET_HOLE_15″ on line 178.
Invalid or incomplete DXF input — drawing discarded.
Regenerating model.
Command: _RIBBON
Command: COMMANDLINE
Command:
COMMANDLINE
Command: ‘_zoom
Specify corner of window, enter a scale factor (nX or nXP), or
[All/Center/Dynamic/Extents/Previous/Scale/Window/Object] : _e Regenerating model.

In this error, notice ORCHID_FAUCET__HOLE_15″ on line 3. The ” is an invalid character in all CAD software and because the ” is used in the color name, your CAD software cannot open that file.

Invalid Characters are < > / \ ” : ? | , = `

To correct this problem:

  1. Open the .dxf file in the LT-55 XL software.
  2. Click Color and change the color name by removing all invalid characters i.e. < > / \ ” : ? | , = `
  3. Close the color menu.
  4. Save the file.
  5. Open the .dxf file in your CAD software.

Valid characters that may be used in your layer/color names:

  • A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
  • a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
  • 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
  • $ _ -
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