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Half a print, missing details

MarkFitz
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Half a print, missing details

MarkFitz
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Hi,

 

I have a situation, where my drawing only wants to print half the details.  I've enclosed it for reference.

It's a previous drawing, not mine in the making, but I've checked all the layers, they're all active, visible and printable (or should be, none are checked as DO NOT PRINT).  Yet when I go to print it the print preview shows the details I drew, and a few others, but this is a plant drawing, so the roads and train tracks are missing for one.  There is a message about one of the x-refs, but I thought I had cleared that up.

It's probably something simple that I forgot, or something that I'm just not that familiar with, it's been a while since I last used CAD.  I checked the forums for this, and the first thing that came up was from me the last time I had a problem with missing details, but that was a border/layer issue, I don't THINK this is the same thing...   But then I've been wrong before...

 

Any suggestions?

 

Mark

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Patchy
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Thaw, on, only thing missing was your XREF Mater-1st..... drawing.

 

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MarkFitz
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Thanks!

 

What do I need to do with the X-ref, Attach it, reload it??

It says its status is "loaded", when I go to attach, it says it is already defined.  Should I DETACH it and re-attach it?

Thanks Patchy.

 

Mark

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Patchy
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Detach, then xref again, put it in its own layer call xref, and make it set to print.

john.vellek
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Hi @MarkFitz,

 

Did @Patchy's advice resolve your problem?  When I open your drawing I also see an error about your hatch patterns being very complicated.

 

Also, when I run Audit I find three errors. Purge removed one bad entity and -Purge>Regapps removed 298 applications. 

 

 

Perhaps all of this was creating some problems as well. I hope that your problem is now resolved.

 

Please select the Accept as Solution button if my post fully solves your issue or answers your question.

 

 


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MarkFitz
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Hello John,

 

I am aware of the hatching, thanks for the reminder though, I need to reduce it, I was wanting to print the drawing so I could physically see what it looked like, and thus how much to fix, again, thanks for the reminder.

 

John, if I may, let me ask you, in terms with which I am familiar...

We have a large, detailed drawing of the entire plant, made from x-refs compiled from smaller sectional drawings of each building, and in turn each production line within that building.  This is done as x-refs, because...?   So that when a change is made to one of the smaller drawings, it is then automatically reflected to the overall larger drawing, correct?  So we don't have to constantly play catch-up between manually made changes on the smaller drawing, and having to keep updating the larger drawing every time a smaller drawing is altered.  Is this basically correct?  (A one word answer here is perfectly acceptable).

 

To save us all time, I purchased the Mastering AutoCAD 2016 book over the weekend, do you have recommendations as to where I start?  Probably with the whole x-ref/viewport/model-paper space things, as this seems to be my biggest failing at the moment.

 

My thanks to your good self, to Patchy, and to all the people in the ACAD forums for giving so much of their time with fast, helpful responses in minutes, not days, to help us lesser mortals out as we need it.  I believe my issue is resolved, I would like your response to my paragraph above still, if you would.

 

Thanks guys,

 

Mark

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john.vellek
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HI @MarkFitz,

 


@MarkFitz wrote:

Hello John,

 

I am aware of the hatching, thanks for the reminder though, I need to reduce it, I was wanting to print the drawing so I could physically see what it looked like, and thus how much to fix, again, thanks for the reminder. Yes - keeping the drawings clean always makes it a happier environment!

 

John, if I may, let me ask you, in terms with which I am familiar...

We have a large, detailed drawing of the entire plant, made from x-refs compiled from smaller sectional drawings of each building, and in turn each production line within that building.  This is done as x-refs, because...?   So that when a change is made to one of the smaller drawings, it is then automatically reflected to the overall larger drawing, correct?  So we don't have to constantly play catch-up between manually made changes on the smaller drawing, and having to keep updating the larger drawing every time a smaller drawing is altered.  Is this basically correct?  (A one word answer here is perfectly acceptable). Yes, you have the concept down! In addition, to clean out those xref files, run RECOVERALL on the master and it should work on all the attached files too!

 

To save us all time, I purchased the Mastering AutoCAD 2016 book over the weekend, do you have recommendations as to where I start?  Probably with the whole x-ref/viewport/model-paper space things, as this seems to be my biggest failing at the moment. Sounds like a good place. Of course the Community forums are here too to troubleshoot, give advice, and to teach.

 

My thanks to your good self, to Patchy, and to all the people in the ACAD forums for giving so much of their time with fast, helpful responses in minutes, not days, to help us lesser mortals out as we need it.  I believe my issue is resolved, I would like your response to my paragraph above still, if you would.

 

Thanks guys,

 

Mark


 


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