Dot hatch pattern not displaying properly

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I'm out of ideas here. I think I've tried everything and I can't solve this. DOTS hatch pattern plots different way in different places and also in different times. I can't pinpoint the issue. It should have been consistent, but in some areas it is really thick dots, , or just thicker than others. So far I've seen about 4 different thicknesses of DOTS in the same drawing, same view window.

I tried playing with HPDRAWORDER variable and HATCHTOBACK command, but that doesn't seem to fix it.

I'm using AtoCAD 2016 64 bit on Windows 10 system.

I tried publishing with DWG to PDF, Adobe PDF, AutoCAD PDF, but I'm not getting any consistent results.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

In the attached picture you can see 4 different scales of dots in the same window.

[Anonymous]

I need to correct this, it is not DOTS, but SAND hatch pattern. Sorry about that.

[pendean]

Are they the same exact hatch pattern?
Are they all assigned the same line weight? and how do you all do that exactly?

[Anonymous]

Yes, they are the same hatch pattern, same scale and same line weight. With each publish command, they might come out different.

One thing I noticed, when I use Bluebeam to publish, hatches are fixed, but then pages that plot with Transparency turned on for plotting, those look pixelated. When I use DWG to PDF or AutoCAD PDF, hatches look like that.

[pendean]

I cannot replicate here: can you share a snippet of your DWG file with the problem intact?

[Anonymous]

Sure, here it is attached. Thank you for looking into it.

[pendean]

See attached, one from model and one from paperspace, using the built-in PDF driver and monochrome ctb (you id not share your ctb). I see no variations.

Am I missing some other setting?

[Anonymous]

I think the issue is not with cad, but with the pdf printer. I am asssuming everything shows up properly in modelspace, correct?

Try adjusting your printer preferences and PDF settings to print in a higher quality (more DPI's)

[Anonymous]

Yes modelspace looks fine, even print preview looks ok, but the resulting PDF is messed up with Sand and Dot hatch. I've tried many things, problem still there. When I plot with PDF creator I don't have this issue. But AutoCAD PDF or DWG to PDF both have the same issue. Higher DPI doesn't help, I'm plotting with the highest setting (best quality).