viewport partially not printing

[Nicholas Kargel]

I have a viewport of a 3D model on a sheet layer. It looks fine on the screen, but most of the lines don't show up on a print or PDF. It works OK in wireframe or OpenGL, but fails in Hidden Line or Dashed HL. I've tried adjusting line weights, render settings, etc.

In this instance, I worked around it by redrawing the missing lines in the annotation, but would like to know a real fix, if possible.

I'll attach the file if anyone wants to take a look.

2010 SP4 (build 126481)

MAC OS 10.6.8

2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

[mike m oz]

Try increasing the line thicknesses used for the components in the model.

[taoist]

You bring up a point here. Are there issues with VW regarding pen weights?

Is this something i can open in VW 2008 to see if I have the same issue?

taoist

[Nicholas Kargel]

Line weights have no effect.

I'll try to attach screen shots from VW and print preview to show the difference.

[Mitchell Brooks]

Your VW document produces a PDF on my system without problem. It's just the one ViewPort which is causing problems, no? That one has both foreground and background render set to Dashed Hidden Line. Seeing as you don't need both (just one would do) I wonder if you removed one (set Foreground Render to none) and see what happens(?). Maybe they kind of cancel each other out for some reason.

[Nicholas Kargel]

Oh, that's something I was fiddling with trying to solve the problem. Seems maybe it's a bug in my system? I did reboot and all that. Also tried recreating the viewport with the same effect. Hm.