PDF wipeout problems

[johnengineer]

My CAD drawings contain wipeouts. When I PDF a drawing, the wipeouts appear hatched in the PDF. How can I avoid this?

[Dipali]

Try the suggestion by 'sab' from this thread http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?t=27227&highlight=pdf+wipeout

 

if not edit title of your thread to pdf & wipeout or search with those words & you can see similar threads

[rkmcswain]

What PDF driver are you using?

[johnengineer]

I don't know. How do I determine what driver I'm using?

[Tiger]

When you're in the Plot window and go to select your printer, what is the PDF-printer called?

[johnengineer]

It says CutePDFWriter.pc3

[rkmcswain]

I'm fairly certain that CutePDF does not support wipeouts, and I think this applies to most of the free PDF drivers too.

 

Acroplot and the new (AutoCAD 2009 Bonus Pack 2) AutoCAD one do.

I think BlueBeam does also. Not sure about the various flavors of Adobe Acrobat.

[lulumara]

Adobe acrobat works for me here.

[BITDRAUGHTY]

the way i found that worked was to have a seperate layer with the wipout on and the layer colour had to be 253 (i think form my shoddy memory).

 

this seemed to work fine as i used wipeouts at the back of all of my elevation blocks

[MudSkid]

what do you mean by wipeouts?

[rkmcswain]

what do you mean by wipeouts?

 

A wipeout is an AutoCAD entity type.

 

It's used to "wipe out" areas of a drawing by hiding geometry behind it in the "Z" order. Other geometry can be on top of the wipeout.

 

 

The image on the left has no wipeout, the image on the right uses a wipeout. The lines appear broken but they are not.

[mshearer]

Though this most likely isn't the best method, what we've been doing in the office is plotting to DWF and then plotting the DWF to PDF. Not only does it solve the problem of wipeouts, it also produces very crisp drawings that are a smaller file size (provided you aren't printing the pdf to 1200 dpi; 144 dpi seems to work fine for linework). It's an extra step but well worth it for this office.

 

Publish to a multi-sheet DWF and then you can print that to a multi-sheet PDF. Give it a shot.