Hello everyone.
I'm having hard times facing these fillet problems
The fact is, I round some corners with the command Fillet, everything looks pretty good in the dwg file, but as soon as I export it to PDF, all the lines that I've "fillette-ed" look un-joined.
This dwg was given to me for my thesis, so I didn't draw it and I noticed that other lines (that I didn't make by myself) are having the same problem.
Please help me!!
Hi,
welcome @forums.autodesk.com!
>> but as soon as I export it to PDF
I would not use _EXPORTPDF, I would run command _PLOT and use either DWG to PDF as printer (or my favorite alternative: PDFCreator).
Find attached my result based on your drawing.
- alfred -
Hi,
>> That's correct. I used the print path to export as a PDF
And what driver did you use?
If you look to my PDF does that look ok for you (just to make sure it's not a viewer problem).
And as you are working on AutoCAD for Mac, it might be a help for you to search in the forum >>>AutoCAD for Mac<<< 😉
- alfred -
I do exactly the same, but probably missing something in the general options, here you are a screenshot:
I've opened the pdf file on Illustrator and it's pretty good. But still the arc line is not perfectly connected to the others or it seems to be...Am I right?
Hi,
>> But still the arc line is not perfectly connected
From my PDF? Then I guess you have zoomed more than 400%
When I look to your screenshot (please notice I don't know the Mac version at all) I see you have set a Canon printer as plot-device. Is there no "PDF to DWG" device available in the Mac version of AutoCAD?
- alfred -
That is so tiny, you'll never see it.
If it is truly important, set your PDF dpi to 4800
Hey, thanks Alfred!
Yes, I'm guessing I've zoomed too much and those lines were not joined toghether. Anyway...
I'm wondering if my problems are connected to a resolution thing.
Could you please post your settings in terms of
-Polyline curve segments;
-Arc & Circles smoothness;
Please?
And then, I'll do a REGEN to the draw and see what'll happen.
Regarding the plot question...
I'm using now a virtual printer instead the canon, but it seems not to work anyway.
I'm looking around to find a solution.
Thanks!
I would not use _EXPORTPDF, I would run command _PLOT and use either DWG to PDF.....
Care to elaborate?
As far as I can tell, they both use the same driver to produce the output file. What are the differences? Thanks
.....I'm guessing I've zoomed too much and those lines were not joined toghether.
Could you please post your settings in terms of .......Polyline curve segments...Arc & Circles smoothness.......And then, I'll do a REGEN to the draw and see what'll happen.
Those settings, regens, etc., only affect the on-screen display and not printed output.
Hi,
>> Care to elaborate?
Experience 😉
Most time someone had problems with EXPORTPDF the alternative _PLOT worked.
- alfred -
Looking through the rest of the file, I've noticed that's a big mess!
Look:
This is driving me I-N-S-A-N-E !
Hi,
Experience 😉
Most time someone had problems with EXPORTPDF the alternative _PLOT worked.
I gathered that much. I'm asking for technical details as to why PLOT supposedly works when EXPORTPDF doesn't when they seem to be doing the same thing. Thanks
Hi,
>> I'm asking for technical details
Sorry to not have any proofed description why these two commands work sometimes different (at least similar to _PUBLISH and _PLOT).
It's really just learned from years of working with AutoCAD and support customers.
- alfred -
......why these two commands work sometimes different (at least similar to _PUBLISH and _PLOT).
Interesting. I have not run across this, but it's entirely possible that nobody here is using EXPORTPDF too.
One thing I have noticed over the years is that publishing to PDF from SSM gives different results than publishing via the Publish command or just using PLOT
The latter seems to have problems with wipeouts, background masking, etc. (black boxes appear frequently but not all the time where these items should be), but when publishing from SSM, I have never seen this issue.