dinarele Posted May 8, 2009 Posted May 8, 2009 Maybe you could help us. My colleague is having the problem with autocad prints. The drawing is in 2D format, but the plot is coming out from printer as 3D: it is streched and not all the layout is on it. I have tried to look in the ploting settings, drawing settings, but couldn't find anything. So, I decided to register here, maybe someone experienced similar problem and could help me. Maybe it is some general Autocad setting? Thanks. Quote
ReMark Posted May 8, 2009 Posted May 8, 2009 You are plotting from paper space right? The objects drawn in model space are being viewed through a viewport created in paper space right? Is scale of importance or will "fit to scale" suffice? If scale is important what scale would you like? What size paper is this being plotted to? Are you sure you have a top or plan view established? Quote
dinarele Posted May 11, 2009 Author Posted May 11, 2009 Thank You for the reply. Yes, I'm plotting from the paper space. Viewport is scaled to 1:200, plot scale 1:1 on A1 paper. Print preview shows everything ok, but then printed it becomes as it was turned into 3D view and printed. Quote
dinarele Posted May 11, 2009 Author Posted May 11, 2009 And it is done to all the layout including the title block, which is inserted into the paper space. Quote
ReMark Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 Unfortunately without an image I'm not envisioning what the output actually looks like. You say it has been turned into a 3D view. Could you provide a bit more detail on that statement? Quote
dinarele Posted May 12, 2009 Author Posted May 12, 2009 Here I added some image examples. Image 002 shows the view on the screen, normal 2D view in the viewport. Image 001 - that's how it looks on the paper after printing Quote
ReMark Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 Looks like the aspect ration has been tweaked. Could it be plotter related and not AutoCAD itself? Does this happen with just this drawing or any drawing you plot? Quote
ReMark Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 Could it be you are using a window to define what you want to plot and the option Plot to fit is enabled? What size paper are you plotting to? What is the plot scale? Quote
dinarele Posted May 13, 2009 Author Posted May 13, 2009 The scale is 1:1 of the plot and 1:200 of the drawing, not 'Fit'... And even with 'Plot to fit' it shouldn't plot like that. I just don't know. At the moment i'm plotting same drawings from other computers and it's ok. From my computer just recent drawings are plotted like this, old ones (year 2004, 2005) are plotted ok. Quote
ReMark Posted May 13, 2009 Posted May 13, 2009 I can't think of a plausible reason why recent drawings done in AutoCAD 2009 will plot "stretched". Have you tried invoking the plotter calibration wizard? Quote
ReMark Posted May 14, 2009 Posted May 14, 2009 dinarele: What is the status of your problem? Solved/unsolved? Quote
dinarele Posted May 20, 2009 Author Posted May 20, 2009 Sorry, for answering so late. Unsolved. Tried to look at the plotter configurations, everything seems to be ok. So, waiting for our IT specialists to arrive and take a look at it. Maybe it's some kind of connection setting problem... Thanks for trying to help me. If you will still come with an idea how to solve this, please let me know:) Quote
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