linetype misprint?
I have a dotted "hidden" pline on my drawing but when i print the drawing or a part of it (in model space) the result is a continuous line type.
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Check your linetype scales and also your ctb/stb file.
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I'm seeing this now, as well, printing from both model space and paper space. Lineweights show up correctly but everything prints as a continuous line, while showing the proper linestyle characteristics on the application screen. Line widths print okay, as directed by the selected plot style table (.ctb). The linetypes in the ctb from the print dialog are all "Use entity linetype."
I would also check the ctb/stb files directly but there are quite a few of them and, frankly, I don't know for what I would be checking or in which of the several.
If I take the same drawing and open it up with V10 (10.5.6 B-19818) I see the same thing now -- okay linetypes on the screen but only continuous when printing.
It's probably *something* that I've managed to set incorrectly but none of the tweaking to the controls that I know about (entity linetype scale, linetype scale, and paper space linetype scale) seem to have any effect on the printed result (although they each seem to behave as expected on the display screen).
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Aha! It was "something" that I set. Specifically, the shademode setting.
Selecting shademode 3D produces the reported effects: linetypes show up okay on the screen but print as continous lines.
Selecting shademode 2D, on the other hand, produces correct results for both on-screen and printed outputs.
I have rarely done drawings with both flat and 3D elements. Thought I'd try it this time, where a nice 3D view of the end result is up in its own viewport inside a standard ANSI drawing frame. I'm guessing that the "normal" 2D drawings are done in shademode 2D and, since there are no 3D elements, I don't ever change it out of that mode and things just work as expected.
The 3D models that I do for illustrations, on the other hand, haven't had any 2D elements -- or, if there were, they were just contruction bits that used all defaults -- so changing the shademode around did not affect the end result. In this case, with both types of elements in the model space, I was flipping back and forth between shademode 3D and Gouraud and had both paperspace viewports as Gouraud when printing.
Setting the "flat" viewport to shademode 2D and leaving the 3D viewport in Gouraud produced the expected and desired results, with correctly linetypes.
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@ Richard: Thank you for sharing your findings with the rest of this forum.
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Thanks Richard,
I don't have enough time at work to do these tries and check all the issues everytime they appear. I'm used to Acad (working 20+ years) and for me sometimes working with Bcad can be similar to being dropped into a maze. Considering both applications are so similar in use, interface and commands, i'm always making mistakes expecting Bcad works the same way Acad do. This means i really appreciate your comments and checkings on the application, they are really valuable and save me a lot of time.
Luis Real
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