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Annotation Scale

jbdower — Fri, 03 May 2024 20:47:00 GMT

I have a trial version of AutoCad 2025. I created a drawing and I am trying to plot (print) that. But I keep getting and error "annotation scale not equal to plot scale".

If I say to "continue" it attempts to plot but then crashes. How do I correct this.

Re: Annotation Scale

pendean — Fri, 03 May 2024 21:09:09 GMT

The message you see is just informational, nothing more: your CANNOSCALE setting does not match your PLOT scale setting. That's all it is reminding you of since it appears your file is using annotative text and dimensions.

Your crash is likely something else. Can you PLOT to a different printer/driver without crashing?
Can you PLOT a different file?

Re: Annotation Scale

paullimapa — Fri, 03 May 2024 21:10:28 GMT

That’s just an alert message. You can read more about annotation scales here

But that should not cause a crash if you choose to continue to plot. Please share your dwg with this issue and provide a screenshot of the Plot window so we can all see what your plot settings are

Re: Annotation Scale

jbdower — Fri, 03 May 2024 21:35:50 GMT

I have tried different printers with the same issue. Here is the .dwg file.

Thanks for your help.

Betreff: Annotation Scale

cadffm — Fri, 03 May 2024 21:53:51 GMT

Hi,

" but then crashes. "

nothing to do with the message.

Open your file, select all 16 inserts of block CAR and delete them, [command QSELECT FILTER or SSX]

run PURGE and purge all

QSAVE

The file have a impossible situation, a selfreferencing block

Block CAR contains one blockreference of block car (circular self reference).

And because this is the only content, the block don't have visible content and is useless,

delete and purge is a valid solution.

Re: Annotation Scale

paullimapa — Fri, 03 May 2024 21:53:22 GMT

Your drawing required recovery.

I used AutoCAD's RECOVER command to select your drawing to open and this is the result

After that then I could plot without a problem

I just click Continue & I see the Preview:

But notice that the attached PDF is missing all the BWALL lines actually anything with color 255

This is because those would all be white & since the paper background is white there would be nothing shown unless you plan on plotting onto color paper

See attached pdf with those white matching paper background objects all not shown.

Re: Annotation Scale

jbdower — Fri, 03 May 2024 22:31:55 GMT

Thanks Paul, that was the issue all along, not the plotter. Seems like Acad would have given me an error message that said I had a circular reference.

Re: Annotation Scale

paullimapa — Fri, 03 May 2024 22:34:17 GMT

There are always potential problems AutoCAD won't catch...so you'll have to learn to catch them on your own...cheers!!!