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Expert: - 12/14/2007


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Help! I seemed to have lost my favorite font. I don't know how or why. It is the "archstyl.shx" font. All of my drawings have reverted back to an ugly font. I still have the font, or at least I think I do. I have an icon that at least was the original font. My question is how do I get it back so that I can use it in my drawings? Oddly, the font name is in the dropdown menu in the text style window, but it will not let me select "apply". By the way, I am using AutoCAD 2006. Thanks!!!

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Shaun:
I think you changed your profile.  Anyway, go to Options, Files, Support File Search Path, Add, and then Browse to the folder that contains the ARCHSTYL.SHX.  When the folder is added to the Support File Search Path, Quit out of AutoCAD and then start AutoCAD again.

Let me know how it goes
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