Plot Preview AREA In Plot Dialogue Box Blank

[Anonymous]

Hi, please help. The plot PREVIEW AREA in the plot dialogue box is blank. When I hit the PREVIEW button, I can see whatever it is I've selected to plot with window, extents, etc. So previewing my selection and printing aren't the issue. The issue is that I don't know what I'm printing (until I preview) because that PREVIEW AREA/Black Box to the right of the plot dialogue box has now become blank and won't return back to showing me what my plot window has selected.

I've tried everything that I can research. I even got a message twice that I can't recreate saying something along the lines of 'preview not available, hit the preview button to see your plot'.

I'm not super experienced with AutoCAD but I can get around in the program. I haven't had any issues with plotting what I need to until recently. I noticed AutoCad did an update that had some effect on plotting, I'm not sure if this is related or if it was some random command that I did. I've attached screenshots showing what I'm talking about. 

[TheCADnoob]

This look like its on a MAC. You will need to reach out to the AutoCAD MAC community.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac/ct-p/4051

Some things ive read indicated they line weight might affect the preview, but im not certain thats what your problem is. I cannot recreate the issue though as i dont have a mac. 

[J.FOCHT]

Hello @Anonymous,

Here is an AKN article that may be useful to you:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Plot-p...

Also check to see that your printer drivers are up to date as well.

[maxim_k]

Hello @J.FOCHT 

The article you referred is about AutoCAD for PC, but the question was about AutoCAD for Mac. Plot preview on Mac looks very different:

It does not depend on Lines Overwrite and has no settings.

[maxim_k]

Hi Elizabeth,

Have you updated macOS to 10.14.4 recently?
If yes, that could be the reason of broken plot preview.
On my side on 10.14.3 preview shows correctly:

[Anonymous]

Hi Guys, Thanks for the feedback. Yes, AutoCad updated on it's own and that's when I started having this problem. Also, I plugged my file into a friend's mac laptop yesterday to see if it was specific to my computer. And it is. Opening the file on her computer had no issues, I could view my preview area without issue, just as you can @maxim_k. I'm wondering if resetting the plot settings would resolve this? I'm going to post this issue to the mac forum and see what kind of feedback I get. I didn't know there was a separate forum! I'm also following the links you guys sent to see if I can stumble my way through them. Any additional feedback is welcome!

[maxim_k]

>>>>>I'm wondering if resetting the plot settings would resolve this?
If the issue was cased by macOS update, I'm afraid - no.