BATCHPLOT (PUBLISH) ignores sheets then doesn't even save PDF

[Anonymous]

I am in AutoCAD 2016.

BATCHPLOT is not working in the slightest.  I am attempting to use BATCHPLOT to create a PDF set. 

I have 4 drawings open. 

I type in BATCHPLOT, press Enter, then the batchplot/publish window shows up.  2 problems are happening.

1) Batchplot refuses to bring in certain layouts.  There are 6 layouts each in each of the 4 DWG files.  In 2 of these files, Batchplot only brings in 5 of the 6 layouts.  Just ignores 1 layout from each drawing.  The layouts don't have the same name.  I don't know why these sheets would be ignored.  Even when I manually bring in each DWG file to the Publish window, it still ignores the same sheets.  I don't see a way to be able to manually select certain layouts, only select certain DWG files and hope it brings in all the layouts (which it doesn't).  The layout names all look something like this format:

MT-1 2436A

2nd problem) When I click "Publish", it starts plotting them in the background which I have chosen, then when it's finished, it says "Errors and warnings found."  When I click that, it shows me some sort of error log that doesn't really indicate to me that there even were any errors.  I can paste the error log here if helpful.  Then when I go to the folder that the PDF set should have been saved to, the file isn't even there. So not only is BATCHPLOT ignoring layouts, it's not even saving the PDF file at all. 

It's frustrating that the program is this broken.  I've never run into this horrible a problem with AutoCAD before. 

I had hoped Batchplot would save me some time, as I just need to plot about 24 sheets.  By this point I'd probably be almost done plotting them one by one (which I may end up doing anyway).  Before I try that, I'll try using Batchplot with only one DWG file open at a time.  Even if that works, BATCHPLOT is still not functioning as it normally does, because normally, I can have 20 DWG files open, use BATCHPLOT, and plot them to PDF just fine.  I don't know what's up this time. 

If anyone has any help, it would be appreciated. 

[maratovich]

Maybe you have several title blocks in one layout?

[injineri]

Try AUDIT, PURGE and remove OLE objects from drawing if not necessary and then PUBLISH

[imadHabash · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Try to do the following steps :

• restart your machine, then launch AutoCAD and start Publish your sheets then see if it's Ok . 
• if it's not fixed , please make sure that you install AutoCAD 2016 Service Pack . >> Click <<

Regards,

[RobDraw]

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@Anonymous wrote:

It's frustrating that the program is this broken.

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Just because you are having trouble doesn't mean the program is broken. Publish is being used by many people every day without problems like this.

The quickest way to solve this is to post a file that exhibits the behavior.

You could also try to solve the problem yourself by taking a look at your command line history to see what errors are happening to cause those layouts not to be loaded.

[Cadologist]

Are you using the Autodesk DWG to PDF.pc3 driver from an earlier release? If so, this might be the cause of the problem you are experiencing. Ensure you are using the current Autodesk PDF drivers (PC3 files).

Background

When we upgraded from AutoCAD 2015 to AutoCAD 2017 we experienced a batch plotting issue where whenever we published and via Sheet Set Manager printing, the prints failed. We could print each file individually but as soon as we attempted to batch plot, failure occurred.

The AutoCAD PDF drivers were updated in AutoCAD 2016 which includes (4) different PDF PC3 files (as shown below).

• AutoCAD PDF (General Documentation).pc3
• AutoCAD PDF (High Quality Print).pc3
• AutoCAD PDF (Smallest File).pc3
• AutoCAD PDF (Web and Mobile).pc3

The solution for us was to ensure the (4) PC3 files shown above were included in the Plotter Support folder where the existing DWG to PDF.pc3 file was stored.  We also copied the AutoCAD PDF (General Documentation).pc3 and RENAMED it to overwrite the earlier version (renamed to DWG to PDF.pc3). This solved the batch plotting issue we experienced.

Question

What AutoCAD PDF driver are using when the batch plotting fails? If its the existing DWG to PDF.pc3 from an earlier version of AutoCAD, try the solution above.

[Anonymous]

So I tried the same thing with the exact same files 2 days later (after restarting my machine which I do once a day) and everything worked fine this time.  So I guess something was happening to where I needed to restart my machine.  I don't know what was causing the problem and it's a bit annoying that the problem would come up (especially given that I restart my machine once a day) but at least BATCHPLOT works properly now.