topic Re: Plotting mapped object shadows in AutoCAD Forum

Plotting mapped object shadows

Chris_Baze — Sat, 09 May 2020 01:38:25 GMT

I have a sheet with realistic visual style, a sun, and shadows in AutoCAD 2020. The plot and plot preview will not show Mapped Object Shadows. When I change the shadow display to Ground shadows, they do plot. I found an old thread titled "Plotting to PDF with shadows and no face style" where someone is having a similar issue. @Alfred.NESWADBA found that once a .CTB plot style is applied, the shadows will no longer work even if the .CTB is turned off. I am having this issue now, I can not get AutoCAD to plot with mapped object shadows and a custom .ctb was applied in the past. Is there any way to fix this?

Re: Plotting mapped object shadows

imadHabash — Sat, 09 May 2020 01:49:18 GMT

HI,

i suggest to check your hardware acceleration is ON from GRAPHICSCONFIG command , any changes ?

Re: Plotting mapped object shadows

Chris_Baze — Sat, 09 May 2020 01:50:25 GMT

Already on

Re: Plotting mapped object shadows

Alfred.NESWADBA — Sat, 09 May 2020 07:46:38 GMT

Hi,

please show a link to the other thread you mentioned.

Also please upload the dwg-file + the CTB- file + let us know your version of AutoCAD.

- alfred -

Re: Plotting mapped object shadows

Chris_Baze — Sat, 09 May 2020 19:53:44 GMT

I cannot post the files, but it's AutoCAD 2020 and the old thread is here: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/plotting-to-pdf-with-shadows-and-no-face-style/td-p/4302695

Re: Plotting mapped object shadows

Alfred.NESWADBA — Mon, 11 May 2020 06:53:37 GMT

Hi,

>> the old thread is here

Well, hard to compare 2012 with current version of AutoCAD.

Currently it's hard to show the shadow in hidden-line visual style ... and when you succeeded with this ... shadows are turned of when you start command _PLOT (even without CTB assigned to the layout).

So you'll need to define a different visual style (a rendered one), with white walls to get a result close to your wish.

Sorry to not have a better idea, maybe someone else can help more with this.

- alfred -