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AutoCAD 2017 Not plotting text lineweights

BennnttPLS — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 17:27:17 GMT

I just installed AutoCAD 2017 and am finding that plotting in 2017 does not seem to recognize line weights in either TEXT or MTEXT entities. We use a .ctb file to control lightweights. Other entities such as lines etc. plot with the correct width. We tried it plotting to a Sharp printer/copier, to a PDF file, and to a Canon ipF785, all with the same results. Changing the text to color “BY ENTITY” had no effect.
I opened the same drawing in 2016 and plotted using the same CTB file and the text plotted correctly. I can supply copies of the dwg and ctb files if that will help.

Re: AutoCAD 2017 Not plotting text lineweights

pendean — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 18:59:13 GMT

Nothing is new or changed with R2017.

SHX fonts follow ctb settings is your colors are correctly matched to your pens.
TTF fonts ignore CTB settings.
Truecolors (RGB) do not work with CTBs, if tat is what your text is set to.

Which is it? If you are unsure, post your DWG file, your CTB file and a sample PDF that totally ignores your ctb settings and let's all have a look. ZIP all three files first for easier posting.

Re: AutoCAD 2017 Not plotting text lineweights

john.vellek — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 20:31:41 GMT

Hi @BennnttPLS, I am sorry that you are having things not plot correctly. Dean's analysis is spot on though so it would be helpful to see your files so I can see if I can duplicate the issue.

Also, do you see this behavior if you plot to a PDF using one of the AutoCAD PDF PC3 files?

Re: AutoCAD 2017 Not plotting text lineweights

BennnttPLS — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 21:15:21 GMT

Thanks for responding Dean & John,

I am using the same drawing file and same CTB file in both AutoCAD 2017 and 2016. Attached are the drawing file, the CTB file, and two PDF's, both plotted from the same drawing using the DWG to PDF PC3 file. As you can see I have a mix of SHX and TTF fonts. The SHX font is simplex.shx All are plotted with either yellow, green, or magenta, no Truecolors at all. The CTB file is the same one I have been using since developing it in 2004, all colors 0 through 7 plot with increasing pen widths, red being .13mm up to magenta being .80mm. It seems to occur no matter what plotter I use, and TEXT and MTEXT have the same behavior.

-Tim

Re: AutoCAD 2017 Not plotting text lineweights

john.vellek — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 18:42:55 GMT

Hi @BennnttPLS,

You won't like this! I couldn't duplicate the problem. I put your CTB file in my plotStyle folder, started up 2017 and then produced a PDF that looks the same as your 2016 one.

I suggest removing the Standard.ctb from your 2017 installation and copying over the one from 2016 and reinstalling it in the 2017 path.

Please follow up by producing another PDF and let me know if there is any change.

Please select the Accept as Solution button if my post solves your issue or answers your question.

Re: AutoCAD 2017 Not plotting text lineweights

pendean — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 13:09:37 GMT

Your biggest mistake ever: calling your custom plot style table STANDARD. Stop calling your custom unique items in AutoCAD STANDARD. You just self-inflict new problems all day long that way.

You have a unique company name. You have a unique name. Your files ought to have unique names. Try it, it will make fixing problems a lot easier that way.

Try it.

BTW your file reported these issues

Here is your PDF with your plot style table, I see lineweights, hope these are correct

Re: AutoCAD 2017 Not plotting text lineweights

john.vellek — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 18:44:03 GMT

Hi @BennnttPLS,

I am checking back to see if my post or Dean's helped you with your problem.
Please add a post with how you decide to proceed and your results so other Community members may benefit.

Please select the Accept as Solution button if a post or posts fully solved your issue or answered your question.

Re: AutoCAD 2017 Not plotting text lineweights

BennnttPLS — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 20:43:18 GMT

No luck yet, I haven't had enough time to work on it. I am looking at the simplex.shx file itself as the possible culprit. The only other .shx file available in my default setup is gdt.shx which plots correctly but only has upper case letters, the lower case are symbols. I found a "simplex8.shx" file on my system from an earlier version of AutoCad and placed it in my 2017 fonts directory and it plots correctly. ( I have AutoCAD LDT 2004, Civil 3D 2007, and AutoCAD 2012, 2013,2014, 2016 and 2017 installed. and btw my Standard.CTB file has worked fine since when I developed it back in the early '90's )

... A few hours later....

I just reset AutoCAD to it's defaults vie the Start Menu option and that seems to have done the trick.

Re: AutoCAD 2017 Not plotting text lineweights

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 20:27:31 GMT

Pendean gave me a clue that got me out of my same problem . I create .dwg one of two ways, as an Adobe Illustrator export (for purposes of tracing an aerial photo), and File - New native to AutoCAD. The Illustrator-created .dwg needs some help. On both of them, type Options then in Lineweight Options, be sure that you have clicked Display Lineweight. Open an entirely new file to create a set of objects on separate layers where I can actually adjust the lineweights, then Copy/Paste these object-lines into the Illustrator-traced .dwg, or, copy the aerial-traced geometry into the native DWG. Then under Modify, use Match Properties to force AutoCAD to display and plot lineweights. I hope that this helps.

Re: AutoCAD 2017 Not plotting text lineweights

RobDraw — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 12:09:27 GMT

My guess would be that there was a font replacement to a .ttf going on. The replacement font was similar to simplex.

Re: AutoCAD 2017 Not plotting text lineweights

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 20:45:30 GMT

Try this... hit "ctrl p" to print. In your plot style table (in the upper right corner of your dialogue box (you might need to click the arrow in the bottom right to see it)), click on the edit button (the wrench icon). On the color you are having a lineweight issue with, click on the lineweight pull down, and set to desired weight. There is also a Edit Lineweights... button you can select. Save & Close, and do a preview.