I have a phantom line showing up when I plot this particular drawing. When I plot this drawing, do a preview or plot to a pdf, I'm getting a phantom diagonal line going across the drawing. There is no object there in model space or paper space!!! I havn't left on any hidden/locked layers etc. I'm not doing anything I don't normally do with drawings like this. It's just a topographic map of a residence with a surface. I've purged, audited, recovered, even started a new drawing and inserted the componets and nothing fixes this. I feel like throwing my computer out the window and applying at Wal-mart... any ideas!?!
Thanks,
Aaron
It may be that you are seeing a leader or dimension line from an XREF. For reasons I've never learned, sometimes the lines from leaders, dimensions and hatches will show up in plots even though they are turned off in your model space or frozen in the viewport. The only way to stop it from happening is to FREEZE the layers containing the problem lines in model space. That includes XREF's as well. Please check ALL your references to see if there is a line crossing the drawing in that location. Remember to check any layers that might be turned off or frozen in the source drawings. If you find the line, freeze that layer in Model Space in your host drawing. It has to be frozen, not OFF.
HTH
Getting the same thing in AutoCAD LT 2012 and have posted with another in the AutoCAD Forum who is having similar problem.
Kind of glad I'm not alone.
Regards, Charles Shade
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Charles,
It turned out to be part of a contour. I had to explode and trim it to stop it... kinda lame, but whatever.
Aaron
Hi Charlse, good to see ya, I really fell behind on my dyno block chops, but my c3d chops got better.
I had stray lines in PDF's and then updated to a newer PDF driver and they went away.
Joe Bouza
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Same issue. See attached topo we were having issues with. This was an xref in a plan and profile sheet and we could not figure out where the lines were coming from. They did not show up in plot preview or show in model space.
It turns out the survey file had 2 survey figures with messed up elevations. The elevations actually read "value too large to format" in the survey figure edit elevation panorama.
I suspect this may be the issue many have had. Hope this helps.
Greg
I had this same problem on Autocad 2012 LT.
I updated to service pack 2, and it was still there.
I purged and audited, and it was still there until I went from model space back to paper space and the line was visible and I was able to delete it.
Good luck!
C
I had a simmiliar problem. My "lines" was actually a series of dots simmilar to the dot linetype only very closely spaced. At first I thought it was the printer but turned out to be the drawing. Long story short, it was due to in image file (pdf in particular) that was "cropped" in paperspace.
That line looks like the limits of the Layout Viewport.
If it is on a layer that is "OFF", try setting the layer to "FROZEN" instead
If I remember correctly, it only occurs when you use a PDF and crop it. Try modifying the PDF outside the Autodesk application or converting it to an image and using it instead.
Thanks Edward. It was cropped PDF that was causing this issue.
I had figured this out a little while after I posted, but I forgot to reply back with my solution. Thanks for he follow up. Kudos all around!
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