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Anonymous
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Issue with Thick lines

The issues is when I go to print to our large printer I end up with very thick lines (to the point you cant tell what the drawing is) this does not happen when printing to my 11 x 17 or pdf printer. It happens to any file ive ever made even the ones ive printed with ease before. If I send to my coworkers they also have no problem. This is making us believe it is a configuration problem, but we are having no luck. We have messed with line weights, plotting style, and the other "typical" things that tend to be the issue. We are all very seasoned with Autocad and are just stumped. Anyone have a suggestion?

Cadologist
en respuesta a: Anonymous

Have you tried to log into another different computer and print? See if the same results occur...... assuming not, they its pretty obvious it's something on your workstation or user profile. Have you confirmed that all the printer properties/settings are matching between your workstation and a coworker that can print the same file but without the heavy lines? Try to uninstall and reinstall the print driver for your large format printer?

 

A few suggestions or starting points anyway, process of elimination works good to resolve these sort of issues.  Good luck!!

 

 


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Anonymous
en respuesta a: Cadologist

All printer property/settings are the same as my coworkers and has not changed from my original printer settings. We tried deleting the printer all together and reinstalling  and that also did not work. The only thing that does work is to unmark the scale lineweights box before you print but by doing this our problem becomes not being able to see the line. And this setting has always been checked before. Also tried another computer logged in as myself and still not working.

john.vellek
en respuesta a: Anonymous

Hi @Anonymous,

 

I see that you are visiting as a new member. Welcome to the Autodesk Community! 

If you log onto another computer and the problem follows you then I need to ask if you are using roaming profiles on your network? Also are your user permissions identical to your team mates?

 

It sounds like you have a corrupt user profile.

 

 

Please select the Accept as Solution button if my post solves your issue or answers your question.


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Alfred.NESWADBA
en respuesta a: Anonymous

Hi,

 

>> The issues is when I go to print to our large printer I end up with very thick lines

Am I right that your plot-dialog is set to a different scale value than 1:1?
The clean (well structured) solution is to create layouts with the same size you want to plot. Otherwise you will always have issues with scaling (lineweight, linetypes, text-heights and more).

 

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Anonymous
en respuesta a: john.vellek

User permissions are the same, and we cant log onto other computers here but our own. What we tried was logging in with my saved settings to someone elses but that obviously doesn't work because it is my saved settings. We think a corrupt user might be the issue but trying to avoid clearing the user completely.

Anonymous
en respuesta a: Alfred.NESWADBA

The scale is 1:1.

Alfred.NESWADBA
en respuesta a: Anonymous

Hi,

 

>> The scale is 1:1

Well, it's strange as with 1:1 the lineweights should appear on the paper in the same size it is defined eihter for the layer of the object, or the object itself or the CTB/STB if there is any used to overwrite the lineweights.

 

Can you please save the drawing with a different file-name, then run command _ETRANSMIT to create a zip-file from your drawing with referenced files.

Please upload that ZIP as well as the PDF created for the same paperformat as the plotter is set and having too thick lines.

 

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thamlintx
en respuesta a: Alfred.NESWADBA

WINDOW THE ENTIRE DWG, SET GLOBAL LINE WITH TO DEFAULT OR ZERO

Anonymous
en respuesta a: Alfred.NESWADBA

Sorry I can't attach anything, not something we do.

 

But we believe we have found the issue just not sure how to fix it.

We often switch between imperial and metric which I did recently. Our standard drawings are Imperial so I switched my setting back over but somehow my printer settings still show up in metric but our printer prints imperial which is where the scaling is coming from. Never had this happen when switching back and fourth and didn't know if you could think of anything.

(Long story on how we discovered this is the problem but none less we did)

 

Thank you for all the help and I apologize for the slow response

john.vellek
en respuesta a: Anonymous

Hi @Anonymous,

 

I would recommend having a separate PC3 file and possibly Page Setup for Metric and one for Imperial.  That should get you squared away I think.


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GrantsPirate
en respuesta a: Anonymous

Sounds like the Scale lineweights is on, so pick on the box to clear the check mark out of there, in the Plot dialog, lower middle in the Plot Scale section.


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