jjpetro Posted January 16, 2011 Posted January 16, 2011 Hello everyone. I have just signed up to CADTutor but am not new to it as I occasionally research topics on it. I have AutoCAD 2010 and AutoCAD 2000i LT. I don't know why, but I still prefer 2000 LT for my purposes. My problem, then, is with plotting in LT 2000i. I have a 300 kb file. I am plotting a portion of the file, maybe 65 kb worth. However, when I send it to plot it takes forever to load into the plotter. I pulled up the Printer Queue window and saw that the plot file is 17.7 Mb. The job is slowly loading in. This has happened on two other similar files. Again, I'm running ACAD LT 2000i in Windows XP. I'm sending the plot to a HP 750C Plus plotter with added memory. Thanks. Quote
jjpetro Posted January 16, 2011 Author Posted January 16, 2011 Yes, I've even reduced the number of layers. It has about 10 in it. Purged everything else, too. Just started plotting, it took 35 minutes for it to load in. Quote
ReMark Posted January 16, 2011 Posted January 16, 2011 Have you tried the old trick of closing everything and rebooting your computer and then restarting AutoCAD and trying to plot? Quote
jjpetro Posted January 17, 2011 Author Posted January 17, 2011 Yes, I have shutdown all applications, the computer and the plotter. None of it worked. Some of the other files have no problem plotting, the don't "grow", load right in and the plotter takes off. I've compared all plot parameters, settings, etc between the files and see no difference. Quote
ReMark Posted January 17, 2011 Posted January 17, 2011 Open the drawing in AutoCAD 2010. Audit it. Save it. Plot it. Are you using TrueType fonts? 2000i? Second one today. Did you ever install any service packs? Quote
rkent Posted January 17, 2011 Posted January 17, 2011 See knowledge base http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=11817088&linkID=9240617 Quote
ReMark Posted January 17, 2011 Posted January 17, 2011 See knowledge base http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=11817088&linkID=9240617 Wouldn't this apply more to 2010 and not to 2000i? Quote
jjpetro Posted January 17, 2011 Author Posted January 17, 2011 Well, opening it to 2010 and Auditing it seemed to help quite a bit. It's still a bit large, 990 kb, but that's much better than 17 Mb. Thanks for your help. Quote
ReMark Posted January 17, 2011 Posted January 17, 2011 Now that you have the drawing in 2010 leave it there. If you try to save it down to 2000 file format expect the drawing file size to balloon again. I would seriously think about retiring 2000i. Consider this the "push" that you needed. Quote
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