Unnecessary Lines in Layout Print

[athens_kindrid]

Hi, I would like to inquire how to removed this un-necessary lines that appear every time I tried to plot preview in "As Displayed" settings? If I will used "Legacy Hidden" all corridors did not display but only graph, please help.. 😞

[nkiakas]

Hi @athens_kindrid

Check you targets (offsets & elevations)

Looks like you added unwanted target.

If you target by layers filter, then you may forgot and object somewhere far away with the requested target layer.

You can share you file to take a look

[ecfernandez]

Hi @athens_kindrid, welcome to the Autodesk Civil 3D forums. As @nkiakas said, that seems more of a corridor-related problem than a plan-production one. Return to the model and check the integrity of your corridor before proceeding with plan-production. If you can, you can post your file so we look at it.

Regards

[athens_kindrid]

Hi sir, in my model I don't have any problem, it seems ok and clean but when I tried to print, it appears some projection or un-necessary lines in layout print preview mode. 

[athens_kindrid]

All my target was set into surface or existing ground survey sir, but I can't understand why its difficult to removed those projection lines in print preview.

[nkiakas]

Hi @athens_kindrid

Can you share your file?

Regards

[athens_kindrid]

I supposed to print the file but the problem if the viewport is "as Displayed" it appears some unnecessary lines, but if hidden my hatches and some lines did not appear, please help how to solve this issue.

[user181]

Looks like maybe video card settings.  First enter GRAPHICSCONFIG at the command line and change the 2D Settings from Advanced to Intermediate (see image below) if that doesn't work enter GFXDX12 at the command line and change it to 0

[andrewpuller3811 · Accepted solution]

I ran an audit on your drawing and found 2472 errors. 

Quite a number of these were errors where one of the coordinates was set to an invalid number, which got reset to 0.

Regen the drawing after the Audit and the lines will appear.

The drawing ends up with 1276 lines shooting down to the origin.

It appears that the rending for the plotting finds the errors in the coordinates and assigns a value to the ends of the lines. Which in this case seems to be the bottom right of your view port.

The lines are all in layers related to the corridor and daylight. 

I will leave it to you to figure out if deleting them is acceptable or whether you need recreate the drawing from wherever it came from.

[teerawat.pSCHYQ · Accepted solution]

Hi @athens_kindrid if recovery this cad file then you will see these lines like this, after that you can selected all of this line and then just delete

after deleted these lines, then when you print , it not showing these lines already like this. 

[ecfernandez]

Hi guys!

The image that @teerawat.pSCHYQ posted made me think @athens_kindrid's corridor might be built with custom subassemblies that have auxiliary or permanent geometry that is not working properly. For the former, it is normal we cannot see this geometry when we build the corridor, and for the latter, it might not have any assigned codes and that is why it cannot be seen either.

I opened the file and I could not see any corridor within the file. Can you confirm if your corridor contains custom subassemblies @athens_kindrid?

Regards!

[teerawat.pSCHYQ]

Hi @athens_kindrid  same with @ecfernandez asking on your file, if your original file with corridor (not like exploded corridor), and then you try to printing out then I guess all these line should not error. 

[lim.wendy]

Hi Athens,

Welcome to the Civil 3D forum. Thank you all for your contributions to this thread. Here are some suggestions from our community members:

1. Andrew provided excellent insight into the cause of these lines. Run an audit on your drawing, and regenerate it. This might help identify and potentially resolve some of the coordinate errors, which resulted in many lines shooting down to the origin.
2. As Camilo mentioned, check if your corridor uses any custom subassemblies and, if so, review their geometry and code assignments.
3. Try Teerawat's suggestion of viewing the file in Front view to identify and potentially remove problematic lines.

If possible, try rebuilding the corridor from scratch, ensuring all subassemblies and targets are correctly set.

Please let us know the results of these steps and if you need further assistance. 

[athens_kindrid]

Hi, thank you for your reply. I try to review my assembly and my mistake, I customized it and turned the thickness all into zero value. My main purposed to is to get the elevation value and used it as soft shoulder. Unfortunately, I already convert it into ACAD file. which is now I am having a trouble in printing showing those unnecessary line.

[athens_kindrid]

Thank you so much sir!! This helps a lot! Thank you! Thank you!😍😍

I made a mistake on my assembly corridor by customizing it into zero value all the thickness to used as a soft shoulder, because if I will used the generic it did not follow the super e & it did not show the elevation.