Drawing won't plot other than ref

[deano33]

Created a drawing and all was fine. Had new layout from Architect and decided to delete the existing plan from the drawing and imported the new architects layout as an xref as I now have multiple drawings using same plan layout. However since I imported the xref none of the services or title block will display in the plot preview or print. only the ref within the viewport will display or print. This is same for all drawings with the new ref. I have opened the previous files with old attached architects layout and all is fine. Any ideas?

[deano33]

Sorted - Many thanks to rkent for this. It was INDEXCTL setting in ref. Was 3 now set to 0.

 

Layers or objects not plotting:

 

1) Make sure your xref drawing(s) is not on DEFPOINTS layer.

 

2) Make sure you haven't drawn on the DEFPOINTS layer.

 

3) Make sure the layers are set to plot, in the layer manager find the layer name

and move to the right until you find the plot icon, it might be set to noplot.

 

4) What color is the layer set to? The color may be set close to a white color.

 

5) What lineweight is the layer set to? It may be set to a width that doesn't show

when plotted.

 

6) What is the linetype for the layer set to? Dots and some others are hard to see.

 

7) Is the layer set to a transparency setting that keeps it from showing? You would

have plot with transparency set to on in the plot dialog.

 

8 What plot style is the layer using? Is that plot style set to a color, lineweight,

or greyscale that prevents it from showing on a plot? You will have to go into the

plotstyle currently being used by the drawing, either a CTB or STB file.

 

9) Are you using a Xerox plotter with 2012, there are some known issues with this.

 

10) In the plotter pc3 file you may need to change Over write to merge in the properties.

 

11) If you are using layouts and the layers are not plotting in the viewport,make that viewport

current, open the layer manager and go all the way to the right to check the settings per viewport,

look for viewport overrides, following steps 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8 as it pertains to VP settings in the

layermanager.

 

12) If using xrefs, open the xref file(s) and set INDEXCTL to 0 and save the drawing.

 

13) If using xrefs, open the xref file(s) and purge, audit, and save the drawing.