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+1 for this issue. We've found that using a PC3 we create from Adobe Acrobat works soooo much faster. But the downside is that regardless if we have layers merge turned on...it won't. DWG to PDF will merge the layers nicely...but WOW...soooooo sllllooooooowwwwww! Reminds me of the conversations I'd have with the old timers when they'd describe having to REGEN before leaving for the evening back in the day. Oh technology. Guess I'll give DWG to PDF in 2013 a whirl.
Tools menu -> Options -> Plot and publish-> Look for "Background processing options" -> Uncheck the box named "publish" -> Job done!
Try this. Worked for me. Saves me about 80-90% of the time.
Martin
Autocad 2014
Glen,
We ran into this issue a lot when we were using AutoCAD Civil 3d 2014 in our office. After a lot of conversations between our reseller and Autodesk, we ended up getting a DGN hotfix from Autodesk that, when installed, would purge DGN objects. Once we had installed this for our users and had them running it frequently on their drawings, the publishing times for anything (PDF, paper copies, etc.) improved. Maybe it will help you here.
I also had the very same problem (Slooooooooow - over 10..15 mins) PLOT:ing of DWG-images with Autodesk DWG TrueView 2016.
What did the trick for me was this;
=> Options (this takes you to the Plot Options Dialog)
and in the "Options" -dialog, ensure the checkboxes for "Plotting" and "Publishing" under "Background processing options" are _NOT_ selected -> Apply - OK (see dialog below);
It's cool that you're continuing to post to this thread. Thanks for that.
You say you can Plot a sheet pretty quickly? Have you thought of creating a LISP routine to plot the sheets for you?
By the way, you never did say whether you tried it with lower resolution in the PDF output, as suggested by a couple of others who posted to the thread.
Could it be Civil 3D objects are causing the issue? Do you have a lot of dynamic profiles, or one really long one, in the drawing? One thing I would try is exporttoautocad2010, and then try publishing that file with 2016. If the 2010 file prints quickly in 2016, that would tell me Civil 3D objects are causing this. Now you start looking at specfic objects. Surface too large? Lots of complex feature lines? Lots of gradings?
I am curious to hear how this comes out, even if it's another three years. 😉
To,
If you go to the layout tab and right click on it and select 'page setup manager' then click modify for the highlighted tab that you are currently in, a new pop up will come onto the screen. The name of the printer/plotter should be 'none' and all of the sheets within the SSM should have the same printer/plotter name. When selecting to publish them all at once from the SSm, right click on the name of the ssm, hover over 'publish' then select 'publish dialog box' you have a printing page set up of all the potential pages that you are about to print. If you go to 'publish to:' drop down menu and select "plotter names in page setup' and then select all of the pages and change the page setup from '<default: none>' to 11x17 or whatever size you want then it should work. I think it lags when not all of the pages have the same plotter names in page setup manager. I changed all of mine to 'none' and then published and it worked in like 1 min. Maybe it could still work if all of the layouts have different printer/plotter names if you select PDF in the "publish to:' drop down menu. I think that either of these ways will significantly cut down publishing to a pdf time.