A very common issue with AutoCAD is the presence of the dialog below. If you receive this dialog, it means you are missing a shape file that is referenced in the drawing. Shape files contain shapes that can be used by themselves, sort of like blocks. Most likely though, they are part of a complex linetype definition.
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?
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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(setqthem (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.....
FWIW - "scadline.shx" is supposed to be a shape file (at least the "scadline.shx" that I know about - used in Carlson software).I'll bet this is what happened - someone had this drawing without the shape file, and they got tired of the "missing shape file" prompts, so they took a file like "simplex.shx" and copied and renamed it as "scadline.shx" to satisfy AutoCAD's complaining about a missing shape file. But now, instead of complaining about a "missing" shape file, it recognizes that the "scadline.shx" that it finds is a font file, not a shape file - hence the message.Check out -shape-file.html for some tips on purging shape files.-- R.K. McSwain 2ff7e9595c
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