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Round Filled Regions Printing Blocky

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a_kralkay
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Round Filled Regions Printing Blocky

Why don't circles and curves in filled regions stay smooth and round?

 

I can draw a filled region in a detail view or title block family and it looks perfect, but then when loaded into the project (or another family) all of the curved/round portions look very blocky. Like you set the VIEWRES in Autocad too low. It even prints to PDF and paper like this. The region is printing as vector graphics, but it's a polygon not a circle.

 

As a test I made a filled region in a title block family. I copied it and added to a Generic Annotation family then loaded it back into my title block family. The GA version looks all blocky while that same filled region in the title block family looks perfect. Then, when I load that title block family into the project, the same thing happens and now they both shapes look blocky.

 

This is incredibly frustrating as this is our company logo that we obviously want to look nice and crisp. Using a .jpeg (colors are way off) or .png (prints like it was given a thick lineweight) for the company logo doesn't work either. And creating a .dwg then importing also doesn't work, it screws up the colors and the solid fills. I already had to modify the logo a bit because some lines were "too small on screen" (on that note, its 2023... There are 0 good reasons left for why I can't draw lines however small I want. This is just ridiculous at this point) or it simply didn't like how close a corner got to another line (despite it rendering it perfectly fine in the .dwg that I imported). But now even after all that it still looks terrible when I PDF any drawing because the logo still looks like a low res export. And printing directly from the family editor doesn't help.

 

I'm at a loss here. It's either a blocky inaccurate filled region with the right colors, or a blurry raster image with the colors all wrong and text too thick. There has to be a better way to add your company logos to the title block, right?

 

Image for reference. Left is a generic annotation family inserted into the Title block family. Right is the same filled region in the title block family. Notice how the right its all smooth and round. How do I get it to print like that?

Filled Region Blocky.PNG

 

 

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whp.m.owens
als Antwort auf: a_kralkay

Not sure it is possible...because you know...it's Revit.

 

Anyways. I have another issue with filled regions in drafting views.

 

This is not a localized problem, I have tested it on two machines:

 

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Displays just fine in legend views at the same scale / detail level. Looks like a glitch to me.

 

 

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SteveKStafford
als Antwort auf: a_kralkay

Do you have a DWG file linked in the project file? If a DWG has extents that Revit regards as too large then the jagged lines in many elements is a symptom of that. If you turn off the display of all CAD links/imports in a view and the jagged lines go away then one of the DWG files that have been loaded into the project is to the cause.


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a_kralkay
als Antwort auf: SteveKStafford

No DWG's linked at all, not even in the main project. This is just a title block family that consists of lines, labels, and this filled region for the logo.
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syman2000
als Antwort auf: a_kralkay

Can you upload the sample file so we can test printing from our end?

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a_kralkay
als Antwort auf: syman2000

Here it is. You can see I'm using a generic annotation for the logo. If you open that family you can copy and paste the filled region into the main title block family to compare.

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syman2000
als Antwort auf: a_kralkay

Looks like the culprit is the generic annotation. I assume that generic annotation go with scale of the drawing. Since there is no set scale in titleblock, it create this weird jagged fill. If I use fill region to replaced the logo, the PDF export works fine.

 

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a_kralkay
als Antwort auf: syman2000

Import the title block family into a project though and print/export from there. It seems as soon as the filled region is loaded into any type of family it goes blocky.

And generic annotations don't scale. Only symbols do. Regardless, scale shouldn't matter with vector based objects.
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syman2000
als Antwort auf: a_kralkay

Send the sample file to Autodesk support ticket. Even if I add boundary to the fill region, it seems to always print as faceted.

 

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a_kralkay
als Antwort auf: syman2000

Well thanks for trying!

It's interesting that when you "export to PDF" the non-nested filled region shape is retained. But if you click "print" and use a PDF printer instead, it's faceted... There must be some processing that happens when clicking "print" that isn't happening with "export" that is causing this. I wonder if that's related to how nesting it in a family does the same thing... Like some sort of compression maybe.

I'll make sure to mention this in my support ticket.

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