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Hey everyone, I'm a Landscape Architect using CAD and often experience the painful experience of plotting very large sets towards the submittal due date. My most recent set after everything was submitted was 158 pages and 230MB. Remember this is just the Landscape addition to a much much larger set. Something to note that brings me here is that from our last submittal to this one was the difference of about 100MB, but with a relatively minimal amount of actual changes occurring in the drawings. So this brings me to my question. Where did the 100MB come from? This question has two parts: FIRST (PLOT MANAGEMENT): I'd love to hear all of your standard order of operations when it comes to plotting for small file sizes. Are there any particular CAD settings to PDF that can reduce the file size? PDF quality control settings? etc? SECOND (DRAWING MANAGEMENT): Which parts of a CAD drawing end up contributing to the bulk of PDF file size? Do the xrefs attached to drawings have a large effect? Blocks? General overall file size? I feel as if there is a compounding issue that occurs but when there are so many drawings involved in architectural drawing sets it's hard to know where to begin.

Hello Forum Friends, So I have a problem, new to me but hopefully someone has run into this and generated a solution. Our company plotted some PDFs using Publish, DWG to PDF and all the text came out fine but when our customer views the text in Bluebeam some of it is replaced by little white squares. It also prints out on their end with the little squares. Has anyone run into this and what is the fix?

Im making a shop drawing and it's already finished, when i tried to plot it in pdf or in plotter the other lines are not visible, is there a possible solution regarding this problem? Visual style control i tried all the things but still some other lines that drawn in 3d are blurred or not shown in the layout.can someone help me?