GAS drawing takes approx. 1 hour for just ploting preview & creating pdf file.

[s.gholap]

Dear Autodesk Family,

For our any General Arrangement Skid(GAS) drawing, the drawing file takes approx. 30min to 1 hour for just plot preview and creating the pdf file.

Also after the creation of pdf,sometimes few parts are missing in the pdf.

The sample pdf is attached here.

Note 1:

Its a AutoPlant ISOMETRIC model. Its having xref many files attached.

Currently the drawing pdf I shared is having drawing .dwg file size of 1.01 MB .

Also the plot preview setting is given second attachment.

Please let me know any solution/setting for fast ploting and fast pdf creartion

Waiting for your earliest reply.

Note 2: We are using:

Software :   Autocad 2012-64Bit , Bentley Autoplant V8i - SS4 version : 8.11.9.140 , Naviswork 2013 , Inventor Ultimate 2014-64 Bit , MS-Office 2010 - 64 Bit.

Hardware : Workstation Dell Precision T3600

[pendean]

What's the FINPRT13 driver that you are using there?

[s.gholap]

Dear,

Its our pdf driver printer.

We also tried by local DWG to PDF.pc3,then also it takes same time.

Waiting for any solution.

[pendean]

Slow plotting is either content or driver setting related: if you want to share the actual DWG file someone here may observe a solution.

[s.gholap]

Dear,

Please have a look on the sample etransmit file uploaded at following link.

http://www.fileconvoy.com/dfl.php?id=ge516da2776fb5651999445660e0707698d77563da

Waiting for solution of fast ploting and creating pdf..

[pendean]

Since the majority of your 16 XREFs are 3D detailed plant or plant-components drawings, plotting is going to be slow: goes back to what was noted earlier, content in your files is the reason for slowness. There is no 'fix', it's a lot of 3D info to squeeze into a 2D flat paper/PDF plot.

RECOVERALL command did find some minor errors in your Xrefs but not enough to make a difference.