DWG to PDF.pc3 behaving oddly

[bleeargh]

Normally when I create a PDF via the DWG to PDF.pc3 plotter configuration, the PDF has a menu within the PDF to the left of the drawing where you can turn layers on or off. Lately, this menu has disappeared from the PDF's created using the earlier mentioned .pc3. Any ideas? Using vanilla 2012 Autocad (I need to edit my profile to correctly show what version I'm using).

 

Edit: the best mistakes are the dumb mistakes......I simply had to go into the PDF itself and turn the layer menu back on from the navigation panel pulldown.....somehow I had turned it off...

Edited February 21, 2012 by bleeargh

[Dana W]

I was gonna answer your question while reading the rest of your post, then I saw the edit. I'll just comment on your avatar instead, Neat truck, '59 chevy, right? Home grown cammo paint job? Can't tell from the small picture. Anyhow, it's cool and it does look like it lives in South Dakota.

[bleeargh]

Sorry for the belated response Dana H. The truck is a 1960 apachi 4-wheel drive 1/2 ton pickup. It's my current restoration project. I've just recently yanked the 235 straight six cylinder engine out and retrofitted a 400 chevy small block into it with a rochester 4-barrel carb. Whoo hoo! Can we say crappy gas mileage! It does about 60 MPH top speed, but there aren't too many places it can't go or too many things it can't pull or haul. It's a fun toy!

[Dana W]

Sorry for the belated response Dana H. The truck is a 1960 apachi 4-wheel drive 1/2 ton pickup. It's my current restoration project. I've just recently yanked the 235 straight six cylinder engine out and retrofitted a 400 chevy small block into it with a rochester 4-barrel carb. Whoo hoo! Can we say crappy gas mileage! It does about 60 MPH top speed, but there aren't too many places it can't go or too many things it can't pull or haul. It's a fun toy!

'At's OK on the delay. '60 huh, yeah, the hood was the same as the '59. I bet it is fun, and it prolly hits that 60 mph in no time too. My current project is keeping a 1999 Chevy Suburban alive. It's a handfull. My next truck is going to be computerless. I learned to drive in a '59 Impala 2 door 283, 2 spd powerglide when it was only 5 years old. That old impala would only do about 60 also but it took all day to get there.

[Jack_O'neill]

'At's OK on the delay. '60 huh, yeah, the hood was the same as the '59. I bet it is fun, and it prolly hits that 60 mph in no time too. My current project is keeping a 1999 Chevy Suburban alive. It's a handfull. My next truck is going to be computerless. I learned to drive in a '59 Impala 2 door 283, 2 spd powerglide when it was only 5 years old. That old impala would only do about 60 also but it took all day to get there.

 

The one and only brand new car I ever bought was such a lemon I had to buy a second car to have one to drive while the new one was in the shop. It was a '53 chevy powerglide with a 235. it was an interesting car....big as a battleship, but got around 20 mpg. Still on the original 6 volt system too. Got it for $350...it became my daily driver to go to work, drove it for 3 years.

[Dana W]

The one and only brand new car I ever bought was such a lemon I had to buy a second car to have one to drive while the new one was in the shop. It was a '53 chevy powerglide with a 235. it was an interesting car....big as a battleship' date=' but got around 20 mpg. Still on the original 6 volt system too. Got it for $350...it became my daily driver to go to work, drove it for 3 years.[/quote']

 

If you bought that 53 Chevy near DC we may have sold it to ya. Was it green with a cream top?

 

I always thought that '59 Impala was kind of sloppy in the suspension area when starting off and stopping hard. In fact, it was scary. Finally took it to a shop for new shocks one day. The tech discovered that the "Trunion Bar" had long since broken away from the frame but the other end was still attached to the axle. The rear axle subsequently was only located by the springs, shocks, a side 'locator bar', and the driveshaft. Wibbly wobbly is not strong enough to describe the result.

 

For those not in the know, a trunion bar is a single locator arm attached to the axle with a bolt and rubber bushings. See Part "A" in the first picture below. The other end is attached to the frame also with a bolt and rubber bushings. It is supposed to keep the axle located in the proper front to back position while letting it move up and down in relation to the frame.

 

The frame end bushing mounting plate had broken off at the factory weld. It had been broken off long enough for a much larger hole to rust into the frame where the break had occurred. There was so little material left, the tech had to weld a 4 x 6 plate to the side of the frame before he could fabricate a new mount for the trunion bolt to be welded on. The driveshaft had also trashed the center bearing due to all the fore and aft shifting under load, so it was replaced. All the repair work cost my Dad a whopping 83 dollars out the door. I really miss 1964. a lot.

 

The other picture is what the old Batmobile used to look like. Ours didn't have dual exhausts but the rest is identical.

The Impala and my dad's old '53 Buick Special Straight Eight are the only two cars we ever owned that I still fondly remember and sorely wish we had held on to.

Edited March 20, 2012 by Dana W

[bleeargh]

Wow, your Dad dropped $83 back in the day for the repair. I had to get my mind around how much money that was back then. It doesn't seem like a lot, so I ran it through the Consumer Price Index (CPI) Inflation Calculator. If he had the repair done today it would have cost him $587.23. I bet it would actually be more as labor costs are higher. My first restoration was a 1965 Plymouth barracuda. I sure miss that car.

[Dana W]

Wow, your Dad dropped $83 back in the day for the repair. I had to get my mind around how much money that was back then. It doesn't seem like a lot, so I ran it through the Consumer Price Index (CPI) Inflation Calculator. If he had the repair done today it would have cost him $587.23. I bet it would actually be more as labor costs are higher. My first restoration was a 1965 Plymouth barracuda. I sure miss that car.

Well, gas was under 25 cents a gallon out in the country where we lived, The calculation sounds about right. Around my neighborhood today, they are asking 99 bucks an hour for labor, so two serious welds, some minor fab work and parts are easily close to 600 + .

 

We had a Valiant 4 dr slant 6 in 1967. That's the same, right?