topic Re: only some lines are visible in printout in AutoCAD Forum

only some lines are visible in printout

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 19:47:29 GMT

I drew this shape with splines and then by filling them with hatches

it looks ok in autocad but when i get a pdf printout some lines are visible some are not

why?

how can i make all lines visible like it appears in autocad?

it is also ok if none of the lines are visible but just hatches

Re: only some lines are visible in printout

Alfred.NESWADBA — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 19:50:52 GMT

Hi,

please

set HPMAXLINES to 10000000.
make sure that the hatches are of type "SOLID".
At least, in the plot-dialog:
- disable "plot transparency"
- select "DWG to PDF.pc3" as output device.

If nothing works then please upload the dwg-file so we can test it on our side.

- alfred -

Re: only some lines are visible in printout

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 20:08:24 GMT

nothing worked...

here is the drawing...

so i need to know, why only some lines are visible (even in autocad only some lines are visible now . stone splines i mean

i also need to know, how can i just eliminate the stone lines but keep the hatches. i mean i want to select select just the stone lines and just delete them so only hatches remain, so i print those cleanly....

Re: only some lines are visible in printout

Alfred.NESWADBA — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 20:21:02 GMT

Hi,

>> nothing worked...

Really? Your layout shows that "Nuance PDF.pc3" is used, so not the original AutoCAD PDF driver; it also has "plot transparency" activated.

Please find attached a screenshot what I'm seeing in AutoCAD and in the PDF ... do you see any differences?

Also a PDF is attached, does that look correct in your viewer? (just to make sure we don't have viewer issues).

the only things I changed for the layout "soil1": plot device and plot transparency.

- alfred -

Re: only some lines are visible in printout

user181 — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 20:35:00 GMT

Maybe it's a draw order thing. Try using the command HATCHTOBACK to send hatching behind the lines.

Re: only some lines are visible in printout

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 21:37:58 GMT

ok your pdfs and screenshots also doesnt look as i want but anyway

so i decided just to delete all the lines and only see the hatches

how do i select all the lines and delete them? as suggested hatchtoback command it really makes easier to at least select lines. but i still must select all lines one by one with it.... is there an easier way to just turnoff all hatching at once? or turnoff all lines at once and just leave hatches? i guess that would be the easiest

Re: only some lines are visible in printout

pendean — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 21:44:37 GMT

Select one of each color hatch, right-click, choose SELECT SIMILIAR, right-click again, then choose DRAWORDER and the sub-option SEND TO BACK and move all those hatches to behind all of those lines to get what you want (or SEND TO FRONT if you do not wish to see the outlines).

Works fine here.

Re: only some lines are visible in printout

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 22:24:01 GMT

so this basically does the same thing as hatchtoback command right?