Hatch inconsistantcy

[NOMATH]

I use the "dot" hatch pattern a lot to designate upholstery in drawings of furniture. I plot all my drawings to pdf using the adobe pdf. pc3 plotter in autocad 2008. Sometimes my dot hatch has consistent dot size and looks smooth in the plot, other times it's corrupted looking and when I zoom in, the dot size is inconsistant. This happens regardless of my ucs origin. Anyone have insight for me? I'd really like to make clean, professional looking drawings everytime. Thanks in advance,


Noah

[Tallie]

Hey Noah,
We sometimes have alot of trouble with our drawing quality when printing to PDF, like things just being left off the drawing completely. And the problem lies with what pdf plotter you are using. E.g. i see you are using abode and in my experience it's the plotter that causes all the problems for us. Sp maybe try testing out another pdf plotter.

Hope this helps

[NOMATH]

Ok. I have now tried 4 different plotters with the same problem! The only one that seems to plot the dot hatch consistently clean is the DWG To PDF.pc3 however, when I plot with that one my layout plots halfway off the page no matter what margins I set.

Very frustrated,

Noah

[chelsea1307]

wanna take a screen shot of your plot settings and post it?