Solid Hatch with transparency of an AO+ drawing not printed on autocad plant 3D

[Anonymous]

I have done a pid on an A0+ size drawing in Plant 3D with solid hatch and with transparency. But how come when I tried to print it, the solid hatch did not appear, only the border line. I've tried to minimize the drawing to exactly A0 size, and I have the solid hatch printed. Is Plant 3D 2018 limited only to A0 size drawing when solid hatch are involve?

[Alfred.NESWADBA · Accepted solution]

Hi,

transparency means all has to be rendered as raster. For format A0 that could result in plot-files (uncompressed) of multiple Gigabyte file size. In most cases it's then an issue of missing memory (plotter memory).

You might try to plot to PDF (play with the resolution ion the PDF options) and send the PDF to the plotter.

>> Is Plant 3D 2018 limited only to A0 size drawing when solid hatch are involve?

No.

HTH, - alfred -

[imadHabash]

Hi,

>> But how come when I tried to print it, the solid hatch did not appear

to print it to where ... did you mean a hard copy ( Paper ) or soft copy ( PDF ) ? also you may need to check the layer print mode that the solid hatch set on .

Regards,

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

thanks mate. printing to pdf and then print the pdf was my next option. perhaps, so far that is the best solution.