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Topic: Arrowhead missing
Posted By: PeterStanley
Subject: Arrowhead missing
Date Posted: 12.Mar.2014 at 10:41
The "right angle" arrowhead has gone missing from my system. All of the others work but if I select right angle I just get a blank where it should be.

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Peter Stanley


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Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 12.Mar.2014 at 10:42
What program are you using?


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Posted By: PeterStanley
Date Posted: 12.Mar.2014 at 10:50
AutoCAD LT 2013

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Peter Stanley

Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 12.Mar.2014 at 11:37
There's no real reason why any of the arrowhead styles that come standard with AutoCAD should be missing.  Someone would have to intentionally delete it or there was a problem during the original installation of the program. 

Is this a new install?

One other possibility.  You didn't try creating a new arrowhead style by any chance did you?


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"Humans have a strength that cannot be measured. This is John Connor. If you are reading this, you are the resistance."

<<AutoCAD 2015>>

Posted By: PeterStanley
Date Posted: 12.Mar.2014 at 11:47
This is not a new installation.

The right angle arrowhead has been in use previously and I have not tried to create a new arrowhead style.

Where are the arrowheads stored. Is it possible to import from another computer or can I repair my installation?


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Peter Stanley

Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 12.Mar.2014 at 11:56
Try resetting your Profile first.  If that doesn't work then you could do a REPAIR of the installation. 

You could also recreate the right angle arrowhead yourself.


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"Humans have a strength that cannot be measured. This is John Connor. If you are reading this, you are the resistance."

<<AutoCAD 2015>>

Posted By: PeterStanley
Date Posted: 12.Mar.2014 at 11:59
How do I reset my profile and what else is that likely to affect?

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Peter Stanley

Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 12.Mar.2014 at 12:12
Options > Profile.

Any of the settings you access via the Options dialog box would be affected.

I thought all the arrowheads were blocks but I can't locate them.  OK...so I went back into my drawing and changed to the Right Angle arrowhead and created a dimension.  Then I exploded it.  The Right Angle arrowhead is definitely a block but AutoDesk programmers thought that the name _Open90 was much more appropriate than Right Angle.  Now that I know what to search for maybe I can find the damn thing.

Crap!  Even with that bit of info I still could not find the block on my computer.

Well if you don't want to reset your Profile or do a REPAIR I could WBlock out the arrowhead and upload it here along with instructions on creating your own custom arrowhead which if you did do it I would use the name Right Angle and avoid using _Open90.

Got to step away from my desk for a while.


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"Humans have a strength that cannot be measured. This is John Connor. If you are reading this, you are the resistance."

<<AutoCAD 2015>>

Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 12.Mar.2014 at 12:34
I uploaded a block named Right Angle.dwg and placed it in the CAD Blocks section under Architecture > _Other.

And here is a link about creating custom arrowheads and how to use them.

http://www.cadblog.net/creating-arrowheads.htm

Consider this your fall-back option.

Good luck.


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"Humans have a strength that cannot be measured. This is John Connor. If you are reading this, you are the resistance."

<<AutoCAD 2015>>

Posted By: PeterStanley
Date Posted: 12.Mar.2014 at 13:41
Thanks.

I'll give that a try later.


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Peter Stanley

Posted By: PeterStanley
Date Posted: 16.Mar.2014 at 12:48
Tried it and it works.

Still would like to find out how to get the proper one back!


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Peter Stanley

Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 16.Mar.2014 at 14:35
I'd like to know how it was lost in the first place but I am glad the one I provided worked.  Thanks for the update.


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"Humans have a strength that cannot be measured. This is John Connor. If you are reading this, you are the resistance."

<<AutoCAD 2015>>


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