printing to laser

[dakeb]

we sometimes print drawings to a laser but on some of our pc's the lines always come out thin. PC's are loaded with the same print drivers.

Any ideas what might cause this?

Thanks.

 

[jackley]

We started having this problem when we upgraded to NX3.0.

Our solution has been to edit object display and change all thickness to normal. Then go into preferences and change all items there to normal thickness. Kind of a pain.

We haven't figured out any other option.

 

[dlad]

We had similar problem and were told to add the following statment in the ugii_env.dat file

UGII_WMF_LINE_WIDTH_SCALE_FACTOR=0.25

maybe this would work for you as well

 

[dakeb]

Thanks for replies. Can't change the .dat file as other users are printing correctly and this file is shared.

I found a previous reply that worked:-

Gildashard (Mechanical) 31 May 05 9:56
un"Maximize" the window with your drawing and make the window smaller. At some point it will print correctly, you'll just have to play around with different window sizes to get it to work.

 

[Xwheelguy]

I'd strongly suggest you at least try adding the environment variable dlad gave, as that should fix the issue with those that are having it and it shouldn't affect the ones who aren't having the line width issue. I've seen this same question asked hundreds of times on various UG boards and adding the above environment variable fixed the problem. Otherwise, you're going to be sizing windows on individual machines until you see an improvement in line widths.....something that I'd think is a little time consuming versus copying and pasting a variable into the .dat file.

Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.

http://www.enkei.com

 

[jackley]

I forgot to mention this, we are on Sun machines and do not have problems printing, just when we create .hpgl files that get converted to .tif's for our Documentation Database.

When the engineers print the .tifs, they are barely legible. That's why we go through and make all the thickness's to normal.

 

[jackley]

Hijacking thread for a bit

Tim, I am curious as to what other UG boards you frequent? Since I am contract where I work, I can't get the webkey for the GTAC forums. Wondering what other places I can check out.

Thanks

 

[Xwheelguy]

jackley,

I visit the UGS board more than any, followed by this one and PLM World (

http://www.plmworld.org).

There are a couple of other NX boards, but they are relatively inactive or the questions posted tend to be very basic in nature.

Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.

http://www.enkei.com

 

[dakeb]

Finally got the env.dat file modified and the fix worked. Thanks dlad.

 

[Xwheelguy]

That didn't take too long ;-)

Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.

http://www.enkei.com