What to do with AutoCAD shape files when importing?

[patricks]

We have a site plan that has some trees that are actually a text font or a shape file or something. When the file is opened in AutoCAD it looks fine, but when imported into Revit it just has some wierd-looking characters in place of the trees. Anyone know how to remedy this?

[Merlin]

We have a site plan that has some trees that are actually a text font or a shape file or something. When the file is opened in AutoCAD it looks fine, but when imported into Revit it just has some wierd-looking characters in place of the trees. Anyone know how to remedy this?

Mate,
We'd have to look at that one first-hand, I think! Can you post?
John Mc

[patricks]

alright here's the site tree plan, along with several shape files. I don't know which one is the one for the trees so I guess try it with all of them. For me it shows up fine in AutoCAD but won't import correctly into Revit.

[hand471037]

I think you'll have to explode those shapes in AutoCAD first, before you bring the file into Revit.

There's an Explode Text express tool if I remember correctly. You might give that a try.

Either that or try a DXF instead. I've had luck sometimes getting everything via DXF, for it's a simpler format and can force things down to just lines.

[patricks]

I'm bringing this up again because we're having to re-issue sheets from this project and I'd really like to get the site trees to show correctly. In that zip file I attached above, the Symbol.shx file is what is used for the trees. The trees in the plan are created using a font style called Symbol, which uses the font type symbol.shx. Now when I import the tree plan into Revit, the tree instances show up as the Symbol.ttf font, which are Greek characters.

I don't see anything in ADT 2004 for exploding text. If I try to use the regular Explode tool on the tree symbols, it just tells me it can't explode the picked object.

What to do?

*edit* I just tried exporting as DXF, then importing that file into Revit, but still the same result - Greek characters showing in place of the trees. Why oh why couldn't the engineers have used simple blocks

[patricks]

surely someone has encountered this problem before?

[modulor]

If you have Express Tools loaded, the command is 'txtexp" to explode text.
However, to convert a shape to a block the command is "shp2blk"

Erik

[scott.hodges]

I know this may be a little late, and not knowing much about revit, but have you placed the symbol.shx file in the revit fonts directory or added the existing symbol.shx directory to the path list in revit. We have similar problems with clients viewing drawings with application that don't have the required .shx files the the application's font directory

[Steve_Stafford]

What hasn't been said explicitly is that Revit does not support shx/shape fonts which is the root of the issue.