stay tuned for the common and rare plotting issues in AutoCAD issue number
one oh no my dash lines don't show up what do I do now if you don't see your
dash lines in paper space try setting up the LTscale to either one or zero and
regenerate now if this happens when you are on model space try msLTscale to
either one or zero
issue number two oh no my fixture layers are not printing if you see that some of
your layers are not printing try this open your layer palette and look for the
plotter icon as you can see this layer it's under fixture now find the plotter
icon and you will see that it's checked
simply unchecked and try to plot again
now everything is looking pretty good oh no my dimensions are not showing up let
me check something on my layers everything looks okay
all you had to do is get inside your viewport by double-clicking on it and then
open your layer palette now if you find your layer in this case a-dim you can
see that a new icon shows in this case the VP freeze icon and is checked so
simply uncheck that as you can see this was really a mystery but we solved it
issue number three
Oh No do I really need all of these different paper sizes? no of course we
can fix this by doing the next steps and simply, uncheck all of the paper sheets
and just check the ones that you really need now you save and boom, we
only have the sheets that we really need now we can test it by going or opening
another drawing and see what we got
nice! only two sheets only ones that I needed
issue number four, where is my ctb file? I need to print this ASAP! as we can see if
we open the plot manager in autocad we can see that all our CTV files are in
there, however, we cannot use them for some reason. To solve this, what you have
to do is in model space type the following pstylepolicy and set to
one
now that's not all in paper space do the following convertPstyles
now if we try, boom! we can see that our ghosts ctb files are showing now. issue
number five, fighting with my drawing to make it fit in this autocad plotting
window. too small
now it is too big. let me see what it's going on here
let's try extend perfect it's nice well this fits good but is not scale one
to one so that's not the right scale, we never want to do that so let's see the
size of my drawing, it is around three feet 36 inches. now we're gonna do is
right click and access the page setup manager so here we know that my drawing
is 36 inches in paper space we wanna use always extend now scale one to one
always, so it is to the right scale
and boom! nice! okay, okay, and boom! see how nice and neat was that?
issue number six, have you ever had a situation where your AutoCAD freezes
every time you print on a specific kit or printer? yeah right
that happened to me too many times and you know what was causing this problem?
simply the printer was off yes! try that out! what this didn't solve your
issue? try the following after you published or PDF to something try to
check for these plot and publish details what you can find here is what errors
AutoCAD is giving you so you can understand and solve the issue, or if
you're a fan of the lazy arquitecto, try this simple method. whenever you have
plotting issues with a drawing, open a brand new sheet or drawing, copy all and
paste at all
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