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MVPart Plotting issue

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Anonymous
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MVPart Plotting issue

Try this one out...
One of my firms' Electrical Engineers came to me with the following issue:
When plotting to a given machine (an XES 8830) some of the lines (completely
at random) in thier MVparts were disappearing (even though the preview was
fine).
Having recently rebuilt these pc3 files to work with recently installed
system printers I naturally thought that there was a driver issue. I sent
the print to a different printer and the print was as expected. So I built
and rebuilt the drivers, the pc3 files etc. in a dozen different ways. I
even went back to the previous printer drivers and pc3 files and still the
same thing happened.
By now I was tired of running up and down the stairs and ran the print from
a different Computer. This Computer printed fine. Even with the new drivers
and pc3 files. So now I'm following my IT Managers advice and looking at
Memory issues between different Computers. Ran everything up and down the
scales trying to find the right numbers. Still constant failure.
Out of pure frustration I began going from user to user and plotting the
drawing from every Computer that I could get access to. I found the
following:
If the Computer had ABS installed on it the MVparts (these were custom
defined) would experience this random "Dropping" of lines. This extended to
the Object Enabler as well. If the computer did NOT have either ABS3 or the
ABS3 OE it would print the proxies fine. Naturally I didn't believe this, so
I have now installed and uninstalled the OE on this machine four times,
running the same plot each time. The results are always the same, with the
OE it drops lines, without it the plots are perfect.

So I have come down to the only way for my Electrical Department to have
reliable plots of thier ABS Content is to go to a Computer that does not
recognize that content at all!!!

Anyone else see any odd things plotting custom content or MVparts?

--
Gary J. Orr
CADD Manager
(218) 279-2421
Gary.Orr@LHBcorp.com

LHB Engineers and Architects
21 West Superior Street, Suite 500
Duluth, Mn 55802
(218) 727-8446
www.LHBcorp.com
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Message 2 of 4
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Hi Gary -

This doesn't sound good...

What happens if you only use "standard" MvParts? Do you still get the "lost
lines" issues? Did you start with R3 templates? Are you using HidePlot?
Would it be possible for you to send us some drawings?

jason martin
Autodesk

"Gary J. Orr" wrote in message
news:4CABB4F106250B25B9F8000B766C1B4A@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> Try this one out...
> One of my firms' Electrical Engineers came to me with the following issue:
> When plotting to a given machine (an XES 8830) some of the lines
(completely
> at random) in thier MVparts were disappearing (even though the preview was
> fine).
(snipped long post)
Message 3 of 4
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Jason, (pardon any hiccoughs in posting this, I'm not at my usual office)
I have our local rep (e-mail me privately if you want her contact info)
looking into the specifics, but the generals are this...

So far we have only seen the issue on custom parts.
Some of the drawings were created in ABE2, then saved up, some of the
drawings were started in ABS3. In all cases the parts were originally
created in ABE2.
Hide plot is no (I was hoping for that too).

I'm also hoping that this thread will generate comments if any others are
having similar issues.

Thanx,
Gary

"jason martin [Autodesk]" wrote in message
news:A5F1512BDB98165491A65A97CA4D7287@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> Hi Gary -
>
> This doesn't sound good...
>
> What happens if you only use "standard" MvParts? Do you still get the
"lost
> lines" issues? Did you start with R3 templates? Are you using HidePlot?
> Would it be possible for you to send us some drawings?
>
> jason martin
> Autodesk
>
> "Gary J. Orr" wrote in message
> news:4CABB4F106250B25B9F8000B766C1B4A@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> > Try this one out...
> > One of my firms' Electrical Engineers came to me with the following
issue:
> > When plotting to a given machine (an XES 8830) some of the lines
> (completely
> > at random) in thier MVparts were disappearing (even though the preview
was
> > fine).
> (snipped long post)
>
>
Message 4 of 4
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Jason, if you're still watching this thread...
I looked into the issue a little deeper and have narrowed it down to a
specific width (0.5") polyline used during the MVpart creation. Still don't
know why it decides that it can't print that one width, but we're working on
it.

--
Gary J. Orr
CADD Manager
(218) 279-2421
Gary.Orr@LHBcorp.com

LHB Engineers and Architects
21 West Superior Street, Suite 500
Duluth, Mn 55802
(218) 727-8446
www.LHBcorp.com
"Gary J Orr" wrote in message
news:E256EF814ED232DF07852E203A5ECCB5@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> Jason, (pardon any hiccoughs in posting this, I'm not at my usual office)
> I have our local rep (e-mail me privately if you want her contact info)
> looking into the specifics, but the generals are this...
>
> So far we have only seen the issue on custom parts.
> Some of the drawings were created in ABE2, then saved up, some of the
> drawings were started in ABS3. In all cases the parts were originally
> created in ABE2.
> Hide plot is no (I was hoping for that too).
>
> I'm also hoping that this thread will generate comments if any others are
> having similar issues.
>
> Thanx,
> Gary
>
> "jason martin [Autodesk]" wrote in message
> news:A5F1512BDB98165491A65A97CA4D7287@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> > Hi Gary -
> >
> > This doesn't sound good...
> >
> > What happens if you only use "standard" MvParts? Do you still get the
> "lost
> > lines" issues? Did you start with R3 templates? Are you using HidePlot?
> > Would it be possible for you to send us some drawings?
> >
> > jason martin
> > Autodesk
> >
> > "Gary J. Orr" wrote in message
> > news:4CABB4F106250B25B9F8000B766C1B4A@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> > > Try this one out...
> > > One of my firms' Electrical Engineers came to me with the following
> issue:
> > > When plotting to a given machine (an XES 8830) some of the lines
> > (completely
> > > at random) in thier MVparts were disappearing (even though the preview
> was
> > > fine).
> > (snipped long post)
> >
> >
>
>

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