Plan & Profile Bands are shrinking - Civil 3D 2010

[Anonymous]

When I am doing my plan and profiles I have come across a couple of instances where when I am ready to plot or just switching over to the layout tab that the bottom bands of my profile have shrunk.  Is thereanything that i can do to stop this or to easily restore them back to normal size?  Could this be a Civil 3D 2010 issue or more likely an issue with the template that we had built for our company.

Thanks

Sherry

[Anonymous]

It could be you annotation scale in the bottom right isn't set correctly or your profile style text size setting I would guess. 

[Anonymous]

I've been having this issue as well.  Did you ever figure out what the problem was?

[AllenJessup]

As dibr0804 wrote. The most likely explanation is that the viewport scale is something other than the drawing scale. The drawing scale is set on the prospector tab by rt-clicking the drawing name, selecting Edit Drawing Setup and  going to the Units and Zone tab.

If that isn't the problem, try posting more details.

Allen

[Anonymous]

I wish it were that simple.  The drawing scale, viewport scale, and scale in model space are all 1:250.  The odd thing is that I have two layouts in one drawing.  Both profiles have six bands stacked on the bottom.  Both look fine on the screen but when I use print preview or actually plot the one is fine and on the other the band spacing goes haywire....they almost stack on top of each other.  I've checked every setting I can think of but everything is identical between the two profile views, view ports, layouts etc. 

[AllenJessup]

Ouch!. It's probably the regen that happens at the beginning of the plot that causes the shift. But I don't know what the problem could be in the first place.

Allen

[Anonymous]

My co-worker just suggested a sollution that worked: copy the offending viewport so that one viewport shows only the profile view itself and the other just shows the bands.  Then line up the viewports so that it looks like one.  It now plots fine!  It doesn't make any sense but I'll take it.