Hello,
I'm an architect who works in AutoCAD here in my office. I produce drawings for a 24X36 format, we print half size (11X17) to review internally. When I draft, I use our office standard layers, whose line weight is defined in our CTB file. Since I've worked here, our lineweights have always looked light. Keep in mind that Im ploting to PDF. We use bluebeam and Adobe here. Printing to both produces bad lineweights. My understanding was that it was the CTB file. However lately, I have been plotting directly to the printers from CAD. Completely different appearence. The line weights are bold. Hatches are reading more promenently. Why is this happening? Why arnt my exported pdfs printing as strongly.
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Mark Green
Working on Civil 3D in Canada
Bluebeam is similar to Adobe, it has a better interface for marking up and commenting on drawings so we prefer to use it for CA. Yes, you Plot to "Bluebeam PDF".
I have sifted through the pc3 file. I didnt find anything that helped. I have attached a scan of the same drawing printed using two different methods. You will see that printing directly to the plotter produces a much clearer reading drawing. you can read the hatch, and the line weights better.
When your plotting a full size drawing (24X36) to a half scale (11X17) make sure you check scale lineweight.
Thank you Steve,
That answers why my line weights are bolder printing directly from CAD - I wasnt checking that box. Ultimately, it seems our CTB is the culprit prodicing the light line weights.
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