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Lines not printing behind screen

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asloat
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Lines not printing behind screen

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.

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ToddRogers-WPM
in reply to: asloat

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



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Message 3 of 6
asloat
in reply to: ToddRogers-WPM

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.
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ToddRogers-WPM
in reply to: asloat

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



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BIM Manager
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Message 5 of 6
asloat
in reply to: ToddRogers-WPM

Lines overwrite is not an option for my company.
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g.diazfonseca
in reply to: asloat

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)

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