Match Line Text not Plotting

[wsargent]

I am using Civil 3D 2011 because of a contract. Monday I created the View Frames and cut the sheets. As of this morning everything was printing properly. Over the day I added alignment labels to the sheets and other call outs, and now the Match Line text is not printing.

I have moved the match line object to the top of the drawing order, double checked the layer to verify that it is not set to no plot, and verified that the xref with the match line is on the top of the drawing order. What am I missing?

Attached is a screen capture of the corner PDF I plotted. Because this is a confidential job I cannot provide much.

Any help is appreciated.

[BrianHailey]

Try it with a different drawing. Create a new drawing, create a quick alignment-profile-sheets-etc. Does it work there? If it does, then it's something with those drawings. If not, then look to your templates.

[wsargent]

I know it is the file. I printed the same drawing in the morning with the match lines working but 10 hours later the match lines were no longer showing up in the print. I am not the only one working in the files, so it may have been one of the other CAD users that caused the issue or it may have been some thing I did during the labeling, ether way I would like to not have to redo the 10 hours if passable.

Edit: I reran the create sheets and the match line is not working in the new drawings... So does that mean it is the template file or the base alignemt file that is the issue?

[Jay_B]

If the Match Line label text is visible and not on a no plot layer one possibility is if the Match Line label visibility is set to "False" in the "Edit Label Style Defaults".

Toolspace>Settings Tab>Rt. click on Match Line>Edit Label Style Defaults>Label Visibility>

Couple other questions.

Will it plot to other printers properly?

Have you tried running an Audit on dwg?

[wsargent]

Lable Visibility is set to True in the sheet files and in the design file.

The pages are 22x34 so I have tryed plotting to our kip and PDF driver at full size, and to our HP at half size.

We have a AutoLISP that audits then saves the file instead of saving the file normally.

[Jay_B]

One last thought, Are you able to type plain text over the area your expecting to see the match line text and bring that to front and have it print correctly? Place the text on the exact same layer as the match line text is on.

[wsargent]

That is what we are currently doing. We have to provided CAD files to the customer at the end of the project, so I need to fix it, but the band aid will work for now.

[wsargent · Accepted solution]

I have no idea what changed, but the matchline text is printing again...