Marco1979 Posted January 21, 2014 Posted January 21, 2014 Dear friends, I've been breaking my head over this. I also had contact with my former "supervisor"and he couldnt help me either. I use dynamic blocks with solids. When thos solids overlay....my pdf-plots wont merge thos "lines" (or dynamic hatches). I tried pdf arch, cutepdf, DWGtoPDF. I\m now at a stage that i will just leave those hatches out. Everything else merges quite fine, only thos blocks keep troubling. ANyone had similar problems or any solutions? We unfortunately use ACAD2009. Quote
SLW210 Posted January 21, 2014 Posted January 21, 2014 Can you post a drawing with one of these blocks? Quote
rkmcswain Posted January 22, 2014 Posted January 22, 2014 Dear friends, I tried.....DWGtoPDF. .... Did you check/change the options inside the DWG to PDF.pc3 driver? Quote
Marco1979 Posted January 22, 2014 Author Posted January 22, 2014 in my dwg to pdf there isnt an option Merge control. Did it plot ok with you? With a lot of other drivers i CAN set this....but even if i set it to merge lines, it still keeps putting them in front of the other. Quote
SLW210 Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 Can you post some images of your plot setting for DWG to PDF? Can you post your PDFs? You might try plotting with free Autodesk DWG TrueView Quote
Marco1979 Posted January 31, 2014 Author Posted January 31, 2014 Sorry for the late respons, but i allready have Trueview installed, but i cant seem to find any PDF-plotter which uses that....? Quote
Marco1979 Posted February 11, 2014 Author Posted February 11, 2014 sorry for bumbping, but SLW, can you tell where im supposed to find that PDF-plooter? Im wuite desperate....nthing seems to merge those blocks...which is quite unfortunate. thnx in advance (other tips are welcome aswell!) Quote
Marco1979 Posted February 19, 2014 Author Posted February 19, 2014 Weir thing....in my E-mail i saw 2 replies....but here i cant seem to find one..?? Did the poster delete those afterwards or am i missing something? Anyway, tried using trueview plotter. Ditn work. Tried finding the "original" DWG to PDF ...cant seem to find that. But what gives away that mine isnt the righte one? The only solution for now i could find is Acroplot. But then i'll have to convince my boss to buy that....just for dezent PDF-plotting....gonna be tricky ;-) But doenst anyone experience those same issues i wondered? Quote
Spaj Posted February 19, 2014 Posted February 19, 2014 I think one of the replies may have been mine. Don't know what happen to it... In your screen shot (post #7) where you illustrate the option is missing the plotter is shown as 'PDF - PDF Plot - by Autodesk'. The PDF driver in recent versions of AutoCAD is 'DWG to PDF - PDF ePlot - by Autodesk' which has the merge control mentioned by rkmcswain. I'm not familiar with ACAD2009 but see if you do not have the option to install this driver rather (Plotter Manger/Add-A-Plotter Wizard/Autodesk ePlot (PDF). Quote
eldon Posted February 19, 2014 Posted February 19, 2014 What version of TrueView do you have installed? versions 2010 and 2013 both have the Merge control. Quote
Dana W Posted February 19, 2014 Posted February 19, 2014 What version of TrueView do you have installed? versions 2010 and 2013 both have the Merge control. So does 2014. It's free, update it. Quote
Marco1979 Posted February 20, 2014 Author Posted February 20, 2014 oh ok, well i did install the ePlot but unfortunatly that didnt work either.It didnt merge the lines, tho merge lines was on. Im curious tho wheter it plots ok with you guys....you know, those overlapping blocks containing solids. Quote
Marco1979 Posted April 24, 2014 Author Posted April 24, 2014 Hey guys, sorry for the bump, but i wanted to share the "solution" with you in case someone experiences the same problem. The ultimate fix is i went to ACAD 2012, the onboard DWGtoPDF will merge the lines quite nicely! In acad 2009 the only printer i could find that would merge it like i wanted to is Acroplot (believe me i tried a dozen!). ...problem solved. (nevertheless thanx for the help) Quote
Dana W Posted April 24, 2014 Posted April 24, 2014 Yeah, the pdf driver that came with AutoCad 2009 was a waste of time. I switched to using TrueView to plot way back then because it costs WAY LESS than a new version of AutoCad. Quote
rkmcswain Posted April 24, 2014 Posted April 24, 2014 The 2010 release is when "DWG to PDF.pc3" became a viable PDF driver, and actually it does a good job now. Quote
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