Print to PDF Issues with 2022

LRAndrews · ‎01-17-2022

I am having a rather unusual issue with my print commands in Fabrication CADmep 2022. I always print to a PDF from the spool layouts using the Bluebeam PDF printer (screenshot of my settings is attached). For some reason with the 2022 version it acts like it's trying to open the printed job in Fabrication CADmep. When I browse to the folder where I told the file to print to, the PDF is there, and I can manually open it in Revu without issue. But always before (in the 2019 - 2021 versions) when I click "OK" to print, the PDF automatically opened in Revu as soon as the print job was complete. Now, in the 2022 version of Fabrication, I get the Fabrication CADmep start screen when the print job is finished, as though it's trying to open a new session of Fabrication, and I can't cancel out of it without canceling the print job, which just makes no sense at all. When I select the database I want to use, the PDF opens in Revu as I expect it to, but the additional step is VERY strange. Is there a setting I have unwittingly changed that is causing this?

It is also taking MUCH longer (minutes instead of seconds) to complete the print jobs, which I suspect is a side-effect of whatever setting is goofed up and is causing the error with how the printed sheet is opened upon completion.

jparryNWRY7 · ‎02-02-2022

do you have Bluebeam Administrator installed? There are default folders specified in there. And a checkbox for "open in Viewer". Worth a look.

LRAndrews · ‎02-02-2022

@jparryNWRY7 Thank you for your response. That actually was part of the issue. The print settings in Fabrication were conflicting with the admin settings in Bluebeam. I'm sure another part of it was also that somehow the "print in background" was turned off. Assuming that was either a glitch in an update at some point, or I did something not smart and unchecked that box without realizing I had done so. After some trial and error it is printing correctly now.