topic Re: Plot area is cropped in AutoCAD Forum

Plot area is cropped

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 16:48:38 GMT

When I've created a drawing template with a custom border, the buffer is different than the standard Autodesk drawing template buffer so it isn't plotting the top or bottom portion of the border (less than 0.1" but causes the drawing to look very incorrect). The sheet is a standard 22x34 and displays within the black area that shows where the selected window for plotting is, but the gray dashed line that is in Autocad drawings to give a visual of where the cropping border is for linework/text/etc needs to be shifted to match my border. Suggestions? (Attached file is created from C3D 2019)

Re: Plot area is cropped

pendean — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 17:28:34 GMT

"cropped" output has everything to do with not accommodating your printer's needed margins: looking at your posted file's dotted line that you've gone beyond, that's your problem.

Your titleblock must always conform to the margins of your device: or you need to get in the habit of plotting to a larger sheet size then manually cropping.

Re: Plot area is cropped

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 22:47:23 GMT

I knew the dashed line was the limits of where it'd plot but didn't know where it reads that from. The way I had that set up to print was for Plotting to a PDF. I was using that to create a template for cross section creation automatically, but for the other sheets within the plan set I manually placed the sheet border and didn't have any issue using to same print to PDF plotter. I hope what I'm trying to say is making sense, I was just confused after reading your post how I could make it work like it did for the rest of the plan set.

Re: Plot area is cropped

cadffm — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 23:22:22 GMT

You select a plotter(systemprinter or *.pc3 file)

Each printer have a set of predefined paper definition!

Plus: You can create user defined paper definitions

in some plotter driver and also for each pc3 files.

User defined papers for pc3 files are stored in *.pmp files and in the pc3 file is a link to the pmp file with user defined papers.

Each paper definition have X size abd Y size, also the size for none plotable borders!

So you can have printer1 with paper "A0" with 1189x841mm and all 4 borders =0

Next printer dont have "A0"

The third have "A0", but with borders 5mm

The 4. Printer "A0" is also available but the size is 1255x890

and so on.

Scary, right?

Re: Plot area is cropped

pendean — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 02:02:56 GMT

Dashed line is what each printer/plotter/pdf driver has defined as a printable area. If this one layout is acting differently, you are probably not using the same exact 100% identical pdf driver. Delete the layout and start over.

HTH

Re: Plot area is cropped

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 16:23:52 GMT

Ahhh.. makes sense now. I assumed a PDF was a PDF, but each of the plotters to PDF have different margins. Thank you both.

Re: Plot area is cropped

cadffm — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 16:37:45 GMT

Each Paper of each Printer, yes