Hi all,
I am working on a welcome desk and the corners are curved, drawn as fillets with a measured radius. I recently zoomed into an export of the layout pages in PDF and realized that the arcs are not exporting in the correct location, although they are shown correctly in MSPACE and PSPACE. They appear joined and flattened. I've tried to flatten, overkill, re-join, draw as arc vs. fillet, and other things I can think of and can't come up with a solution.
Is this an export setting that exists somewhere? Tolerance issue? They appear as if slightly offset or something.
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Could be with you pdf viewer. Have you tried a different pdf viewer?
Have you tried using Plot command and then select Dwg To Pdf.pc3 to create the pdf?
Can you attach a sample dwg and pdf for community to inspect?
Hi,
I suggest to change your plotter to another new one, any changes?
Imad Habash
Thanks for your thoughts. Yes, both Bluebeam and Acrobat show the same issue. I am plotting DWG to PDF.pc3. I can upload a test file shortly.
The issue persists no matter which plotter I choose or if I open in a different PDF viewer.
I'm not sure it answers the question, but in the upper left plan in the drawing those Arcs are not accurately drawn. Of the two larger ones in your image, Properties for the left one shows:
but for the right one:
and similar differences for the two at the upper end of the whole thing. Those should all have start and end angles at clean multiples of 90°, and total angles of 90°, and I presume should be of the same radius.
Also, in the area of your image, the left Arc does not meet the horizontal Line, and above the area of your image, the left Arc at the top edge of it overlaps the uppermost horizontal Line.
But as I say, I don't know that fixing those will fix the problem, because the smaller arc segment in the middle of your image [in that upper left plan in the drawing] is mid-Polyline, with nothing like extraneous vertices, and its start and end angles are orthogonal and its total angle is clean, so one would think it would plot without that misalignment. I can't think of a reason other than the Plot driver doing you wrong.
I say the problem in addition to what @Kent1Cooper pointed out is the smaller scale of 3/16"=1'-0" used to get the plan drawing shown on 11x17 sheet of paper. I made a copy of your Option 4 plan vport and placed it onto a new layout set up for 42x30 sheet of paper with a much larger scale of 1"=1'-0"
I then PLOTTED both your Option 4 layout at 11x17 and my new layout at 42x30
Here's a zoomed in view of your 11x17 pdf plan plotted at 3/16"=1'-0" as you've pointed out with the inaccurately shown arcs:
Here's the zoomed in view of the 40x32 pdf plan of the same drawing but shown at a much bigger scale of 1"=1'-0":
The imperfections have practically all vanished.
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