topic Re: Printing lineweight in AutoCAD Forum

Printing lineweight

kzD1219 — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 18:45:04 GMT

My lines, even on the same line are showing different weights once printed. Some where between print preview and printing the line weights of any drawing that I am working on mess up and some of the lines on the exact same layer are bolder than others, no elevations, no widths, and exact same properties.

I have printed on 3 different printers and tried to make pdfs and all result in the attached file. The only time it looks ok is on the screen or in print preview.

Anyone run across this? Any solutions? Is there a setting I need to be checking?

Re: Printing lineweight

pendean — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 19:12:10 GMT

Post your DWG file.

TIA

Re: Printing lineweight

kzD1219 — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 19:17:51 GMT

It doesn't matter what drawing I choose and everyone else is noticing it too when they print things off. It has probably gone on for quite awhile before any started getting annoyed at it.

Re: Printing lineweight

Alfred.NESWADBA — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 19:24:02 GMT

Hi,

try to use "DWG to PDF.pc3" as plot device instead of Bluebeam,

[EDIT] file attached that was created using "DWG to PDF.pc3" [/EDIT]

- alfred -

Re: Printing lineweight

pendean — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 19:29:42 GMT

You have different LWEIGHT settings assigned to many objects. If I remove them from the area of your screenshot at the dashed lines/arcs, and use MONOCHROME CTB file, the problem goes away for those dashed objects.

What version of AutoCADMAP are you using? What are the pen settings in your missing SDDM ctb file?

Re: Printing lineweight

kzD1219 — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 19:33:56 GMT

@Alfred.NESWADBA wrote:

Hi,

try to use "DWG to PDF.pc3" as plot device instead of Bluebeam,

[EDIT] file attached that was created using "DWG to PDF.pc3" [/EDIT]

- alfred -

Why would this work? I tried it and the dwg to pdf.pc3 file opened in a web page??? Not sure why that would do that. But once printing it off, there was no difference in lineweights on the same line. Weird. A very odd solution in my opinion and probably will not get used by anyone my office. We want to be able to directly print from a drawing or PDF, not a webpage or adding extra steps that no one really understands. I have some people that will not change for anything.

Re: Printing lineweight

kzD1219 — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 19:35:50 GMT

@pendean wrote:

You have different LWEIGHT settings assigned to many objects. If I remove them from the area of your screenshot at the dashed lines/arcs, and use MONOCHROME CTB file, the problem goes away for those dashed objects.

What version of AutoCADMAP are you using? What are the pen settings in your missing SDDM ctb file?

Since there are different divisions of us using acad, I can't change it up for one division and keep the other the same. I am hoping that we don't have to revamp all the lineweights that we have been using for years and years. We are using Acad 2017. Don't know when this started happening though. I would say in the last few months at least.

Re: Printing lineweight

neaton — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 19:39:52 GMT

Opening in a web page is probably because your pdf viewer is set to an online viewer instead of a viewer on your machine. Go to App settings in Windows control panel to change your default .pdf program. You may need to download a viewer to your machine.

Nancy

@kzD1219 wrote:

I tried it and the dwg to pdf.pc3 file opened in a web page???

Re: Printing lineweight

Alfred.NESWADBA — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 19:43:13 GMT

Hi,

>> Why would this work?

Because of:

>> But once printing it off, there was no difference in lineweights on the same line

>> and the dwg to pdf.pc3 file opened in a web page???

That is a setting of your operating system how PDF files are opened, has nothing to do with AutoCAD

>> A very odd solution in my opinion and probably will not get

>> used by anyone my office

That sounds interesting. I have shown you how it works, how your lineweights plot well, and even that without the need of buying a product, you you think this is odd.

From my opinion if a build in solution works I would always prefer this way than to use a 3rd party product.

- alfred -

Re: Printing lineweight

kzD1219 — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 19:48:28 GMT

@Alfred.NESWADBA wrote:

Hi,

>> Why would this work?

Because of:

>> But once printing it off, there was no difference in lineweights on the same line

>> and the dwg to pdf.pc3 file opened in a web page???

That is a setting of your operating system how PDF files are opened, has nothing to do with AutoCAD

>> A very odd solution in my opinion and probably will not get

>> used by anyone my office

That sounds interesting. I have shown you how it works, how your lineweights plot well, and even that without the need of buying a product, you you think this is odd.

From my opinion if a build in solution works I would always prefer this way than to use a 3rd party product.

- alfred -

Definitely the solution works, and yes a built in solution is better than a 3rd party product. I was just expecting a setting change or something that doesn't change the process for so many people in the office. I will have to check my setting for the webpage default. I appreciate the help for sure.

Re: Printing lineweight

kzD1219 — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 19:51:28 GMT

I guess the other question is why is it doing this now? Is it a windows thing or acad? We never had line weight problems in the past months.

Re: Printing lineweight

Alfred.NESWADBA — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 19:56:02 GMT

Hi,

>> Is it a windows thing or acad?

For now we know: same Windows and same AutoCAD do not show this issue using other drivers than the Bluebeam.

It might depend on a combination of all together, but there is no setting for doing wrong or correct lineweights.

One thing to mention: lineweights, when rastered, could also depend on the resolution of the output. If Bluebeam has the option to set the PDF to a higher vector resolution then try that.

- alfred -

Re: Printing lineweight

pendean — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 20:29:40 GMT

Do you just need to uncheck this box?