Hello. I am hoping to learn something about plotting in Plant 3D 2022. I have found that Plant 3D plots a bit differently from other Autodesk products like Civil 3D 2022. I noticed this specifically on viewports using "Shaded" visual style, and containing transparent objects. If I open this drawing in Plant 3D and plot to PDF, I get a pleasant transparency effect, with subtle halftones of each color. But if I open this drawing in Civil 3D and plot to PDF, I get a dithered effect, with tiny "X"es instead. The visual quality is much lower, and the transparent objects look much fainter.
This isn't really a problem with Plant 3D, but it leads to a small workflow problem. My colleagues don't all use Plant 3D, but sometimes I need their help to make small edits to layouts, and plot drawing sets for review. But this plotting difference means that only a Plant 3D user can make the plots with proper quality. So there's a bit of a bottleneck in our workflow.
Here are excerpts from two PDFs, each made from the same identical drawing. No changes were made to page setup or anything else. Both PDFs were made with the default "DWG To PDF.pc3" driver. (Each product has its own copy of the .pc3 file, but I tested with each copy, and no change.) Each .pc3 file points to the driver "c:\program files\autodesk\autocad 2022\drv\pdfplot16.hdi" (version 1.1-16.1.173.0).
Can anyone think of where this difference is generated? And (the big question), is there any setting we can adjust or export to the other programs to bring their plot quality up to that of Plant 3D?
