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Missing lines when 2D drawing is plotted

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DarkEngineer

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Apr 14, 2008
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I am having a problem with lines being missing when I plot out 2D drawings. The drawing looks fine on my screen, but when I plot a paper copy, or as a PDF it is missing lines. I have tryed to toggle different settings including changing the view properties "Exact" and "CGR". I seem to get better results with the CGR view, but it is still missing some lines. Does anyone have any further suggestions?

I am running V18
 
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we also have some line / curve missing in some drawing. Our plotting process include translation to vector file and this is were we have the problem.

Try to change the line type / thickness.

R18 is not supported by DS anymore, I doubt you'll find a fix for R18.

Eric N.
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If the preview looks fine then I would look at the plotter, can you try on another plotter/printer?
 
We've seen poor quality printing with some of our network printers. We switched from using a PS format to PCL, and the drawings printed much better.
 
If the issue is not printer related I would try tools/option/general/display/performance and set static level of detail and pixel culling to zero
 
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