Polylines printing incorrectly

[c_duchardt]

I'm sorta new here. Been looking around for a while and have learned that I have a lot more to learn. Great thing about being only 30...still have plenty of time left to learn. Graduated last year from a local Community college in Northern Maine, US with a degree in Computer Aided Drafting Technology which basically brings me into the CAD world at about about a level 2 to 3 CAD Person. I have lived in Northern Maine pretty much my whole life and have always been fasinated by "blueprints" and have always enjoyed "drawing" houses. I took some other roads after graduating High School but after about 10 years of "floating" realized I should have done what I wanted to do in the first place...DRAW! So now here I sit at a local Electrical Utility Company as a Drafter and love it. People here say I am too picky for using OSnap and OTracking but I say if you have the tool....USE IT!!! That's all for now except one thing and if someone could tell me a good spot to post this ? i'll put it there...

I have a drawing with a titleblock around it. just a simple tblock nothing fancy but the border itself is a polyline of .06 units wide but when I print the whole drawing it comes out looking like two separate lines. I have opened the tblock itself and all is well there and when I view the drawing in "shade" it's the solid thick line it is supposed to be but when i print in shade it just flat out doesn't print right. I have never had this problem before today and we run AUTOCAD 2009. the block was made years ago but I have no problems with it up until now. How do I make the multilines go back to being one big thick black line? HELP please!

[jaylo23]

Is this titleblock inserted in model or paperspace?

[c_duchardt]

Model for this case. But either or has worked in the past.

[c_duchardt]

ok....this was weird I just try to draw a Polyline and the same thing happened...two lines. There are other plines in this dwg that came out right. I'm am perplexed.

[jaylo23]

And im going to assume that you have an width applied to the pline taht looks like two lines, and the ones that dont look like two lines dont have a width or if they do they have very little.

[c_duchardt]

actually I have tried both "Global Width" and "Lineweight" and made sure that my lineweights are visible but all I get is two lines still. If I use Global width, the lines get closer or further way from eachother but when I use lineweight the "two Line" get the weight and there is no "fill" if you wish. I can start the rectangle command draw over them and they are fine (which) I did to get the project turned in) but I would like a more correct solution as to why my insert turns my polylines into double lines.

[ReMark]

Welcome to CADTutor from a flatlander in Connecticut. Glad you could join us.

What is Fillmode set to?

[c_duchardt]

Fillmode is Set to 1.

[ReMark]

Why are you printing it in "shade"?

Do you have show/hide lineweights toggled?

Did you assign lineweights in Layer Properties Manager?

[Tankman]

Welcome to the forums!

Lots of experience here but, we're all learnin' day in, day out!

I've done a lot of work in Jay, International Paper.
Cold winters up there!

Look into properties, line weight.
You may have to increase the line weight to "view" the desired title block.

[Strix]

... and if someone could tell me a good spot to post this ? i'll put it there...I've moved your thread into a suitable tech section, having tried and failed to find a good place to split it into 'tech' and 'introduction'!

I know the menu here is a bit daunting, but you'll find your way round the bits you need really quickly :thumbsup:

[wannabe]

Look in the plot style to see what colour has been assigned and if it is consistent with other objects of that colour.

You're not plotting with .stb are you?