topic Re: Plot Style not working after upgrading to 2016 in AutoCAD for Mac Forum

Plot Style not working after upgrading to 2016

Aldred — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 12:12:01 GMT

Hi,

I have recently upgraded from AutoCAD for MAC LT 2015 to AutoCAD for MAC LT 2016.

I have been using a plot style successfully in 2015. After upgrading to 2016 the plot style does not work as it should. When I plot, it plots the colours that is shown on the drawing, when in fact it should be plotting in greyscale with only the green objects showing in colour. ie. it is not using the plot style at all.

A colleague is using the same plot file and AutoCAD for MAC LT 2015. It works correctly when he plots.

I am attaching a screenshot of the settings I am using in 2016 before I plot.

Is there any settings that I am missing out on? Maybe a system setting?

I hope someone can help.

Thanks

Aldred

Re: Plot Style not working after upgrading to 2016

rkmcswain — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 12:45:27 GMT

Including your image inline to save clicks for future readers of this thread.

Re: Plot Style not working after upgrading to 2016

Aldred — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 12:51:53 GMT

Thank you 🙂

Re: Plot Style not working after upgrading to 2016

maxim_k — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 13:14:24 GMT

Hi,

Try to open Page Setup edit window not from Print dialog window, but from Page setup Manager window:
menu File -> Page Setup Manager, than using "gear" menu create new Page Setup and give it a name, than make changes in Page Setup edit window, including Plot Style table assignment, than set Page setup you just created as current using "gear" menu.

Now try to print using Print command. When you will open Print window everything will be ready for print, you don't need to edit page setup anymore.

Maxim

Re: Plot Style not working after upgrading to 2016

Aldred — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 14:43:26 GMT

Hi Maxim,

This did not work.

Any other suggestions?

Aldred

Re: Plot Style not working after upgrading to 2016

maxim_k — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 14:46:41 GMT

Hi Aldred,

Where is A3.ctb located?
Is it on your local HDD or on the network drive?

Maxim

Re: Plot Style not working after upgrading to 2016

Aldred — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 14:55:06 GMT

It is on the network.

Re: Plot Style not working after upgrading to 2016

maxim_k — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 15:22:28 GMT

I think if you will copy it to your local hard drive and assign this local copy to the page setup, everything should work.
Could be a defect (bug) in AutoCAD.

Maxim

Re: Plot Style not working after upgrading to 2016

Aldred — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 07:42:48 GMT

Hi Maxim,

Unfortunately that did not work either.

I am installing the AutoCAD for MAC LT 2016 on another MAC to see if it does the same thing.

Aldred

Re: Plot Style not working after upgrading to 2016

maxim_k — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 09:06:14 GMT

Could you post your DWG file with CTB file here? I can test it on my system.

Maxim

Re: Plot Style not working after upgrading to 2016

jmacpherson — Sat, 09 Jan 2016 20:21:56 GMT

I'm having the same issue here on numerous computers after the upgrade to 2016. It appears that 2016 is ignoring the plot styles. Exact same drawings can be opened and printed in 2014 with no issues. PDF driver has no effect. Plot with plot styles iand plot object lineweights is on...i'm baffled.

Re: Plot Style not working after upgrading to 2016

maxim_k — Sat, 09 Jan 2016 20:29:08 GMT

Hi

It is AutoCAD for Mac Forum and it appears you are asking about AutoCAD for PC.
Correct place is here:
http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-2013-2014-2015-2016/bd-p/706

BTW, when I'm using AC 2016 for Windows (from time to time) I never have issues with plot styles - everything works fine.

Maim

Re: Plot Style not working after upgrading to 2016

jmacpherson — Sat, 09 Jan 2016 20:54:17 GMT

oops...well, I guess it goes to show that the problem occurs in both platforms!

FWIW - the problem appears to occur only in legacy drawings - that is, drawings created in the previous version of AutoCAD. When I create a drawing from scratch in 2016 and use the same plot style tables, all works as expected. Regardless of platform (Mac or PC), I think the cause may be common to both and at this stage it appears to be related to the drawing files.

Re: Plot Style not working after upgrading to 2016

jmacpherson — Sat, 09 Jan 2016 21:23:16 GMT

I know I'm in the wrong group, but just to close out for anybody that is interested...the scale lineweights option is the culprit. It's not doing what it's supposed to, at least not for our metric drawings. Imperial drawings seem to work fine with the same settings. I suspect that AutoCAD is not scaling lineweights by the ratio of 1:2 as expected. Not the same problem with the original post, since scale lineweights is not checked.

Sorry for the intrusion!

Re: Plot Style not working after upgrading to 2016

Anonymous — Mon, 02 May 2016 22:50:41 GMT

Anybody found solution for this problem. I have same problem starting version 2016. Now 2017 same thing.

Printing 1:1 is fine, printing 1:2 and selecting scale lineweights - makes line super heavy.

It works OK with native DWG to PDF plotter, but any other local printers have super heavy lines if we trying to pring half scale with the same ptofile. Looks like problem is with scale lineweights selecting box. If it is not selected line are 2x heavier (normal, since plotting 1:2) as soon we select option scale lineweights lines super heavy. almost looks like you would pring imperial drawings but scale using metric factor.

Interesting enough even if we leave scaling 1:1, but leave scale lineweights option on - line are super heavy.

Makes no sence since in this case we printing 1:1 and even with scale lineweigts AutoCAD should not change lineweights, right.

I have this problem unsolved for almost 2 years now, and don't even know why we paying subcription for it (I guess we need Revit).

Today completely removed all Autodesk products, cleaned registry, removed all printers, installed 2017 from scratch - SAME PROBLEM.

Re: Plot Style not working after upgrading to 2016

maxim_k — Tue, 03 May 2016 04:28:04 GMT

Hi,

It is AutoCAD for Mac Forum and it appears you are asking about AutoCAD for PC.
Correct place is here:
http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-2013-2014-2015-2016/bd-p/706

BTW, I cannot reproduce the issue you have with lineweights in AutoCAD 2017 for Windows, but I don't use custom plot style table file. Maybe the main case is in it? Have you tried to recreate plot style table file, or even test printing without it?

Maxim