Having trouble printing curved 3D objects

[Anonymous]

I am using AutoCAD 2016 and I am having trouble printing curved 3D objects. When I set my veiwports shade plot to "Legacy hidden", everything looks as it should except the curved objects have triangles on them instead of printing clean. When I set my veiwports shade plot to "3D hidden" the curved objects are clean but my lineweights appear 3 times thicker. How do I print 3D curved objects without triangles and not increase the appearance of my lineweights?

Thanks,

Melodiese Satterwhite

[john.vellek]

Hi Melodiese,

Let's take a look at your plot settings!

If I set mine to Hidden and then make sure that the Plot Object Lineweights is not checked, it appears correct. Is this not what you are looking for?  Please give me a bit more detail and attach a drawing that shows this issue.

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

[Anonymous]

Hi John,

I have attached two pdfs showing the two options that I am having
trouble with. Please let me know what else you need from me.

Thanks for the help,

*/Melodiese Satterwhite/*

[john.vellek]

Hi Melodiese, The attachments didn't make it onto the thread. Please try again and send me the drawing as well so I can explore the problem. You can put all of the files into a ZIP file to make it easy to attach.

[Anonymous]

Hi John,

I tried to send a zip file with the two pdfs and 1 dwg but I got an
error saying:

"Technical details of permanent failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the server for the recipient domain reply01.lithium.com by sv3-smtp8.lithium.com. [208.74.204.8].

The error that the other server returned was:
552 5.3.4 Message size exceeds fixed limit"

What now?

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*/Melodiese Satterwhite/*

[john.vellek]

This is what I see when I use 3dHidden ( I dont have your pen table which might also explain some differences)

Let me know if this is different than what you get. It is hard to tell in the PDFs that you sent me excatly what the problem is so if you can pinpoint an area that would be helpful.

[Anonymous]

The areas that have the triangles, I need to be clean. Does this help?

[john.vellek]

Hi Melodiese

I'm sorry   - do you mean the trusses? Can you highlight where you are seeing the problem? I showed this to another tech here and they don't understand either. I apologize that I am not getting the crux of your issue.

Please help me help you.

[JDMather · Accepted solution]

I'm going to take a wild guess (without the dwg file) and ask, "Do you have dispsilh on or off?"

[Anonymous]

See attached pdf. Does this help?

[Anonymous]

Thank you John for trying to help. Good bye.

Melodiese

[john.vellek]

Hi Melodiese,

I was able to get it to print properly after I used -EXPORTTOAUTOCAD.

I created the new drawing, set the viewport to hidden and it seemed to print properly for me.

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

[Anonymous]

Thank you John! That was it. I knew it had to be something I was over looking.

Thank you for your patients.

Melodiese Satterwhite

[Anonymous]

Sorry. Thank you JD!

Melodiese Satterwhite