Dashed lines plot as solid lines

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I've got an issue that I cannot figure out!

I've got electrical items that have dashed lines in them, these are just detail lines that show a potential door swing or electrical clearances.

They look perfect on the screen, in the view and on the sheet.  However, when I print the drawing (to a PDF or on paper), they come out as solid lines.

The only thing I can do to fix it is to set the discipline to "Architectural", nothing on the screen changes, except the dashed lines plot as dashed lines.  Is this a bug in Revit?  Or is it on purpose, that dashed detail lines plot solid even though they appear correctly on the screen.

As shown here, one has dashed lines, that's the way it appears on the monitor, on sheet and in the view.  Perfect.  But it plots (paper and PDF) as solid lines.

I also want to add, that my Revit 2016 doesnt behave this way.  If I set the view discipline to "Electrical" the dashed lines plot as dashed lines.  But when working in Revit 2017, when the discipline is set to "Electrical" I get this behavior.  These family objects are all created in an earilier version of Revit and then imported into Revit 2016 or 2017.  I have attached an image below that shows the same family objects in a Revit 2016 that plot correctly.

[luna.ye]

Hi derekanderson,

Please check if any different setup for the printer or display of the view in 2016 and 2018 version.

If all the same,could you please private the family to reproduce your issue? Then we can check what caused this behavior.

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[Anonymous]

Hi,

Its not just one family, its ALL dashed detail lines in any family object, in this Revit Project file.  The same families that are inserted into other Revit projects in Revit 2016 plot fine with dashed lines. 

Can you point me in the right direction as to check the printer settings?  The lines appear dashed on the screen but plot/print as solid lines.  I thought Revit is a WYSIWYG platform.  If the lines appear dashed on the sheet view, they should print as dashed lines on paper (or in a PDF file).  But they plot/print as solid lines.

Hopefully I am explaining this clearly.

[luna.ye · Accepted solution]

Hi derekanderson,

Thank you for the reply and the explanation.

You said not only one family in this project, so may I know if you load the family to other 2018 project and meet the same issue? If yes, that probably caused by print setting, if only in this  project, should be the project setting.

For the project, please check if you select "Draw MEP hidden lines" in the MEP settings,  if yes, please try to uncheck it.

For print setting, please check Raster Processing in the Print Setup Dialog.

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[Anonymous]

Hi,

Yes.it is only this project. I have Revit families that used Dashed Detail
lines in the model to show necessary clearances. When I bring them into
this project, the Dashed lines display correctly on the screen, in both the
floor plan view and in the drawing sheet view. However, when it prints the
lines come out as solid or continuous lines. I've never seen this behavior.
Revit is WYSIWYG, however in this one particular project it doesn't work
that way. If I create a brand new project and bring in these same families,
they print correctly. There's obviously some settings in Revit that have
become corrupt or changed. All the settings for "Hidden Lines" refer to
objects that are hidden from view. I'm talking about "Detail Lines" of the
"dashed linetype" that are printing as solid lines.



Thanks,

Derek

[luna.ye]

Hi derekanderson,

Thank you for the update. 

So that's the Project setting or corruption, if necessary, maybe you can share the project to us to check.

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[gtarch]

I've been enjoying this problem with a project.
 
Here's what I found:
 
-Using model lines.
-The problem occurs when the model lines are crossing another object, in case parking lot stripes, which are modeled and have thickness, etc.
-Model lines that don't cross the lot stripes are fine. Depending on how they cross the lot stripes, the lines are more or less affected when printing, they all look fine on screen.
-Change the work plane of the lines, and they print normally. Which is what I did.
 
Kind of a bug. Maybe there's something particular in these stall stripes, who knows?