Single layout in drawing will not plot Shades to PDF in ACADM

[Anonymous]

Just spent 2 hours reading thru forum posts to try and find a fix, as I need this Layout to plot correctly so I can be done with this drawing!  Any help in understanding WTF is going on is appreciated!  

As stated above, I have two layouts in the same DWG file.  Both have multiple viewports, with a couple 2D wireframe, and all the others Shades of Gray.  Don't know why today I'm having this trouble today when I wasn't yesterday, but both layouts are setup exactly the same in Page Setup Manager, so I should be getting the same result.  

Alas, for some reason, Layout 2 will plot Shades of Gray as displayed appropriately, but Layout 1 will not, and nothing I've tried is fixing it and I just need to this to plot so I can move on to my other drawings!  Please help!

Thanks so much!

Sean

[The subject line of this post has been edited for clarity by cheryl.buck from: Layout 1 of 2 won't plot shades to PDF, but Layout 2 of 2 in same DWG will?]  

[pendean]

Post your drawing, that would be most helpful for anyone trying to help you out.

[Anonymous]

Thanks so much for looking and the response, Pendean!  I would have done that first hand, but I've been really struggling with the idea of putting what is essentially the complete blueprint of one of my proprietary part designs up on the public internet.  Having said that I'm fed up trying to figure this out, so I'm about ready to post it, but before I do that, lol, perhaps if you'd be willing to take a look, can I send it to you privately?  I think I can trust the top forum solution adviser. 😉

I am new to the community and the industry-how does one who's looking to protect their intellectual property go about getting file support in these situations anyway?  I'm assuming I am not unique in that I would imagine most designers at companies aren't permitted to post proprietary files to the web-even if for much needed support.  

[Anonymous]

Having just given it another few tries, I can tell you that the behavior is really odd and seems buggy.  After switching all of the viewports in the Layout 1 with Shades of Gray to 2DW, plotting to PDF, then switching all those viewports back to SofG-one of the viewports is now plotting with SofG correctly and the rest are still not.  Layout 2, which has all SofG viewports-still plots to PDF perfectly.  😕

[pendean]

Make a copy of layout 2, use the copy to recreate layout 1: problem should go away.
Trash layout 1.

[Anonymous]

I tried making a copy of Layout 1 and re-plotting it, to no avail yesterday.  Obviously, Layout 2 is different from Layout 1 with several different views and is all annotated in paper space, but to me copying Layout 2 to recreate Layout 1 sounds like re-doing the whole Layout and is not a solution I prefer.  

Only reason being-I would have thought it would be very quick to annotate my layouts in paper space, but I've had many challenges; the Osnap not aligning to points correctly, incorrect values when they do align correctly, and having to run match property commands on the ones that are correct-it took me hours to get Layout 1 completed as it is, and I'd really rather not have to re-do that work!! ;(

[Anonymous]

ACK!!!! This is literally driving me crazy because I'm wasting a lot of precious time and money out of my pocket to use this application because it's supposed to work.  It's supposed to be efficient and annotating 2D drawings is supposed to be an effing piece of cake.  Yet another drawing-totally different file, after spending the last hour and half annotating my layout in paper space only to find it also won't plot any effing shades!!  

It can't be my PDF reader, because I have sent the drawing file to the cloud and it appears just the same on my mobile device. 

This really seems to be something related to annotating in paper space in ACM 2019.  I have been having a horrible, buggy experience ever since going through the process of re-annotating my drawings in paper space instead of in model space as I had initially.  I've to research workarounds for inaccurate measurements, osnap issues, and a straight up inability to dimension radius without the effing arrow jumping off the paperspace entirely, or automatically selecting some other diameter/radius on the drawing, and it all is just sucking time that I'm paying for this application to actually complete my drawings.

This part, being simple enough a design, I'm happy to post.  Please help me understand.  WTF is happening to my files?  

Thank you so much!!!

Sincerely, 

SR

[cheryl.buck]

Hi @Anonymous,

It was very nice talking with you and I am really sorry you are having such a hard time with your drawings. Thank you for sharing the file. As mentioned during our conversation I will be running some tests on the files and will get back with you in the next day or two. 

Additionally, this is the Autodesk Knowledge Network (AKN) article I mentioned about features that behave differently in AutoCAD Mechanical:

AutoCAD Features that Behave Differently in AutoCAD Mechanical Toolset (Including Scaling, Arrays, Recording)

All the best, 

[cheryl.buck]

Hi @Anonymous,

I did finally have a chance to check out the files. I am not sure if your file has content in the Layout 2, the file that was attached to the post only had content in Layout 1.  When I plotted that layout, both the Preview in AutoCAD and the PDF displayed the shaded parts (see attached PDF). 

Here were my settings: 

 

I don't see any corruptions in the file, but there may be some in either the install or the profile. You could try plotting from a new AutoCAD Mechanical Profile (in OPTIONS, Profiles tab). Set one of the standard profiles to current and try the plot again. 

Please let me know the results. 

All the best,

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[cheryl.buck]

Hi @Anonymous,

I am checking back to see if you were able to resolve the issue. Please add a post letting the community know. 

All the best,