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Trying to set up standards and one is to determine which font to use. In Autocad, we had our own custom font, but Revit doesnt use .shx fonts, only TTF's. I found two TTF's I liked, but they were not included in Revit. I installed both of them on my machine, and attempted to use them, but I have weird things happening. First, I modifeid the shxfontmap.txt file to have our .shx font be remapped to our new TTF font. I then inserted a cad detail with the shx font into a drafting view, and it didnt come in with my TTF font, it came in as a Revit_HEB_shx font (what is that?). After playing around, I changed the shxfontmap file to utilize a standard Revit TTF font, Arial, and it worked perfectly, however we want to use other TTF's. Also, when I tried to change the fonts on a detail from whatever the font came in as, to my TTF font, it worked as far as changing all the fonts to my TTF font, however, when I edited the font type and selected it to be underlined or bold or both etc, I got random results of which text actually changed. Some did, and some didnt, yet all of them said they were my TTF font style. I tried this multiple times, using two different TTF fonts I installed, and on Multiple drafting sheets, and even sent the file to our Autodesk reseller/tech support and she got the same results and cant figure out why it is doing what its doing. Another thing I find weird, is when I do a text box, and paste text into it, why does the text inside the box actually extend past the box? Isnt that the purpose of the box? Also, when I go to edit it, the text gets smaller when I am in edit mode. Is this Normal? And Yet another weird thing is why does Revit assign a new text style to everything I import from a cad file? I import a detail -115 into a new drafting view, and the font is now -115-arial-18? I went back to arial as the other TTF's werent working. I want only a few fonts within my file and this is creating lots and lots of font files. What I really would like, and kind of expect to happen, is that the file to have only a few fonts and when I insert a drafting view from my default drafting view templates, that it assumes the same font, and doesnt create new fonts for each drafting view.
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Everytime you import a CAD file and explode it, the line definitions, fonts, hatches are all defined as a new type using the CAD file as part of the name. That is why most of us say "DON'T DO THAT!".... Clean up CAD files in CAD, deleting unwanted items - hatches - layers - dimensions - leaders. Then import into a seperate project file drafting view. Revitize it matching text and linestyles and then bring the view into your project. You could do it in the project if you know all the problems exploding CAD files does, but in a junk project, you can loose most of those problems.
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Ok, Now I understand that, thanks. Actually, what I am doing is I created a details file that just has my cad details in it, with each cad detail in its own drafting view. This way, as I need a detail, I can import the detail thats already in Revit. What I didnt understand is the font issues. So, what I need to do in the details file is to change those fonts in each drafting view to a standard TTF font. If this TTF font is the exact same TTF font as in the project I am using, when I import the drafting sheet from my details files, will it use that TTF font, or will it still create some weird font name with the detail view name?
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