AutoCAD Civil 3D

[#1]

Has anyone seen this before and possibly know a solution?

I have a drawing with a screen and behind it is an xref drawing. When I print it to our KIP plotter the lines and other items behind the screen do not plot.

Here is how it is setup and what I have tried

The Xref itself is on its own layer and all the layers of the xref are set to a color that has thickness of .0138 and a 35% screen.

The hatch resides in the active drawing and is set to a color that is also .0138 thick but at a 20% screen.

The hatch is a DOT hatch at scale 1, but I have also tried it as a solid hatch

Lines merge is on and needs to be on.

I have made sure that the hatch is sent to the back and that there is no overlapping of data from other sources liek a second hatch or the same data in another xref etc.

I also tried setting the xref layers to another color that is .0256 thick with a 35% screen, but the results where the same. If i change the xref layers to a .0138 thick color with 100% screen, they do print over the hatch then.

I have also found that if I use the same plotter but with a post script drive, it does work as setup, though that creates other issues that are not ideal.

[#2]

In the plotter settings, do you have it set to Lines Overwrite, or Lines Merge?

[#3]

We use "lines merge" for a variety of reasons, though I need to toggle it on each time I plot as we are not currently using PC3s.

[#4]

You might want to try Lines Overwrite.  See if that works...

[#5]

Lines overwrite is not an option for my company.

[#6]

There is not much different between 20% and 35% screen. Try using a 40% or 50% instead, also if the hatch is in his on layer assign a transparency value to it (that may help, but turn on transparency on the plot settings)