09-17-2023
03:47 PM
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09-17-2023
03:47 PM
Multiple issues trying to print a B&W A3 to PDF file...
I'm plotting using the monochrome plot style, this seems to the the simplest way to convert my layers to black lines. I'm not going to worry about line widths ATM, I just need some workshop drawings fast to check lines before I send to to vCarve CNC plotting software.
Issues I'm having in no particular order of frustration:
- I've read through the introductory material, watched training videos and read the product documentation. Converting lines and layers by color and other ways are all referenced many times in the abstract, but never explicitly demonstrated in simple examples I can follow. (Massive fail AutoCAD!).
- When I plot using the monochrome plot style, most of my layers went to black in the PDF but some (say 3 or 4 of 15) stayed the colour they are in model space and paper space. Not clear to my why certain layers are in colour and how I fix it. None of the layers are assigned plot styles in the layers palette, the column is "greyed out and can't be edited in the palette directly.
- I can only get any kind of plot using "scale to fit". My model space is in millimetres and the objects I'm drawing for CNC are about 370 mm wide and 60 mm high, so I should be able to see them at 1:1 scale on a portrait A3 and fit them all in at 1:2 scale on a portrait or landscape A3 sheet of paper. When I set the viewport or printout to any scale at all including 1:1 and 1:2 I get completely unreasonable viewports and drawing sizes in relation to the paperspace (which are all set as A3 portrait/landscape in the file I'm using). This is very confusing to me. I've done the training series of tutorials on Adaptive objects and I'm not even trying to do anything that sophisticated, but the scaling is completely up the creek, and illogical to me.
- When I changed the DIMS layer from Cyan colour to something that was more legible in paper space against the white background (I choose a darker green/blue) the DIMS layer (my dimensioning) showed as black linework in paperspace. Was that random or what? Was it because I'd clicked on the "Apply to Layout" button in the Print… Dialogue Box? Why didn't all the other layers show as Black on white in paperspace after attempting to print?