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fuccaro
25th Jun 2007, 02:12 pm
I thought I share my printing experience with you –maybe it will help someone.
I get a project to plot it out. The sender didn’t work much before in AutoCAD and he created the formats in model space. Also he copied all the formats into one single document to simplify the e-mailing process.
I tried at first to save some paper and I moved/rotated the formats to better use the width of the paper roll. But because the formats were very various (none of them was standard size) I ended up with long papers. I said: "It is even better!" I moved the drawings one near the others and I defined a very long paper (about 9m long). As always, I selected the "process drawing in computer" option and I pressed the "Plot" button. But the plotted drawing had a bad aspect: like when a low resolution raster image in magnified with a big scale factor… But the drawing is vectorial, not raster format! I checked the settings… I spent some time and I ended up dividing the long format in two smaller ones. Now it printed just fine. I have no explanations while it happens so-but as I said I hope this will help someone.

Alan Cullen
25th Jun 2007, 02:34 pm
fuccaro....

A 9m long plot.....my mind boggles thinking about the poor contractor trying to roll that one out on site on a breezy day.......:lol: :lol:

Good tip, mate......:D

Strix
25th Jun 2007, 03:29 pm
has anybody ever seen a railway drawing? they put them on walls and not tables for a good reason, and they buy their drawing paper on a roll - coz that's what shape the drawings are!

was it the plotter that was getting stroppy in this instance fuccaro?

fuccaro
26th Jun 2007, 12:18 pm
was it the plotter that was getting stroppy in this instance fuccaro?Myself I wish to have an answer too... The plotter is "HP design jet 750C plus" and the driver is up to date. This is all what I can say. As I wrote I was unable to find the cause.

Strix
26th Jun 2007, 12:53 pm
oooo dunno mate - have you tried googling 'plotting problems' 'hp 750'?

dbroada
26th Jun 2007, 01:21 pm
sometimes AutoCAD just does things.

we had one drawing that would not print out in the correct orientation. No matter what we tried it would always print rotated by 90 degrees. Eventually we renamed it and it was fine. Renamed it back to its original file name and it rotated. We then tried that file name on other drawings and they were all OK.

I think AutoCAD was just having a "because I can" moment.