Trouble printing ...

[mrkoko]

Having trouble printing from solidworks. Version 2009 sp 2.1. Seems to happen on larger drawings, all annotations will print but none of the model views. Has anyone else experienced this ?

Thanks,

 

[gwubs]

I've seen this before on printers that do not have much memory. Try turning on "use computer memory" instead of printer memory when setting up the print job.

 

[mrkoko]

Any Idea on where I find that option. Is it set in the printer properties or in XP?

 

[gwubs]

Hi mrkoko,
The setting is under the printer in Windows (I think). I cannot check becuase the IT Nazis have taken away virtually every thing that can be taken on our network. Amyway, I recall needing to choose using computer memory for our previous plotter to get all the lines to print (Adobe). We are now over to laser printers, and a new plotter, all with network cards built in, so this is not an issue for us any more. Do the missing lines show in print previews?

 

[ctopher]

Do you have your model views within the sheet format?

Chris
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[ArtemTat]

Probably you should make a roundtrip through DWG. I believe this reduce file size and thus memory usage.

Artem Taturevich
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