Help needed with plotting to PDF.

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 07:50:31 GMT

Hi, I've recently started using Autocad and am currently training up a draughtsman and have just been given my first project. I feel I've pretty much mastered the basics with drafting now but the one area I'm struggling with is plotting. I've tried a few different styles and methods but I can't seem to get my PDFs looking as crisp and professional as I would like and to the same quality as my colleagues. First I was getting thick lines everywhere despite everything being drawn with the same default lineweight. I fixed this problem by unticking 'Plot object lineweights' in the plot settings which helped with how the drawings looked, but now I'm getting faded lines everywhere despite objects being drawn on the same layer/colour/lineweight as objects that aren't shown as faded.

I've attached a PDF as an example which was plotted with the best settings I've found so far. I've used DWG to PDF and set the vector image quality to 4800, I'm using ACADR14plotsettings as my plot style table(I've tried others including monochrome/greyscale but this seems to work the best). What I'm aiming for is an A3 black and white drawing that has a 1:20 full view of a window/door and 4-5 section views at 1:3/1:4.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Many Thanks

Mark

Re: Help needed with plotting to PDF.

ennujozlagam — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 08:25:08 GMT

you can adjust your pen assignments based on layer and colours here?thanks

Re: Help needed with plotting to PDF.

jrreid — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 11:45:47 GMT

Here is a link that was talked about letting AutoCAD use your CTB settings for Pen Weights.

Hope this helps. If so Please select Accepted Solution.

JRR.

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