Mike Hessler

Hello and forgive me if this has been addressed before. I have been searching and haven't found anyone with similar issues. I got a new machine a while back at home and have just started drawing on it. For some annoying reason I can only zoom using the scroll wheel when the pointer is in certain locations on the screen. Otherwise, nothing happens. As far as I know, the settings are correct and when I move the mouse to top left or mid right sections of the screen, zooming works fine. Just not anywhere else. I had this problem on this machine with 2010 and I'm now running 2011 with the same issue. I use a Razer Deathadder 3500dpi with the drivers installed, but have the same effect with a cheapo Logitech mouse. I'm running Win 7 Home SP1 on an AMD Phenom II X4 945with 4G of RAM. Any ideas? This is maddening to use. Thx.

Ok, that makes some sense. I have been trying to update them by toggling LLM's in the attribute pop up window with bad results. This works much better. I'll confirm when I get back to plotting later today. More LLM questions - is there a way to duplicate existing ones? How about a way to change the symbol once one has been created and labeled? Thanks, MH

Hi there. I'm new. I have an issue with the label legend manager in that once you mess with the positions of the containers on the Design Layer, they no longer respond to global changes with the Label Legend Manager. Is there any way to reset the locations of the containers without deleting and re-creating the instrument? I am also using the same label legend for different instrument symbols. Sometimes it works brilliantly, eg: a container placed at the cap end of a regular Source 4 body in the LL manager intuitively places itself at the same place relative to the cap on a 5 degree Source 4 on the design layer despite the fact that it is a much larger symbol. Try to do the same with a Parcan and nothing seems to line up. Any insight on either of these things? Thanks in advance, MH

Thanks Pat. I have determined that the issue is with my plotter. There is a toggle between drawing and image - when set to image it has aforementioned lineweight issues, when set to drawing everything is A-OK. DPI settings didn't seem to make a difference. MH

Hi there. I'm a new user doing mainly scenic design. I have an issue when I print a viewport in a Sheet Layer, objects with light lineweights will print the vertical, but not horizontal lines. This does not happen when I print the exact same thing in the Design Layer. Any thoughts? Happens only with the plotter - little 8.5 x 11 laserjet prints the lines just fine. I bumped up the lineweight and the horizontal is there, but noticeably lighter. When I say horizontal, I mean horizontal on the finished drawing in landscape off a roll - so it is actually a vertical line when it is being printed. Thoughts? Thanks in advance, MH VW 2010, Spotlight Win XP SP3 Plotter: HP Designjet 110 plus NR