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Printing Issues - Lineweights


Asemblance

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Hi,

 

We are having some serious problems with Vectorworks printing/exporting to .pdf at the moment, where lineweights change depending on the prescence of other geometry nearby. We have tried printing from different mac systems to 2 different printers, using old and new print drivers, both with the same issue, on vwx 2016 and 2017.

 

I have tried printing with different DPI's directly from vectorworks, and from a pdf, both showing the same issue. I have also tried creating a new file and recreating the geometry in there, with the same issue. Screen shots attached - what you are seeing is a simple hatch of 0.05 lineweight horizontal lines at 75mm c/c, with no hidden geometry's, copied/recereated several times with ungrouped, grouped and symbol windows scattered throughout (which seem to cause the banding). Printed also at different scales, still with the same issue. Any ideas??

 

Thanks!

Anthony

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JimW -

 

Thanks I will try that this end as a workaround for the time being. It is worth noting however that this does occur even when the drawing is scaled up (i.e. printed 1:100@A3 instead of 1:200), so it doesn't seem to be the density of the geometry on the page causing the problem.

 

Also, now that we have noticed this issue on these elevations (where it is so obvious), we have started to notice subtler events such as this on almost all of our other drawings - where some geometry is printing fainter. This always occurs in bands or boxes, usually relating to some other line on a page - for instance between two gridlines - and it is by no means confined to only hatches, it also 2D lines/polylines etc.

 

Edit: Also of interest, some files which were printing perfectly in vwx2009 now present these problems, so it seems to be something relating to the 2016/2017 software.

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We have noticed this in files that have objects with transparency settings.  If we had 2 objects at 50% transparency - the output would be very much like what you are showing. 

We would export as an image - and it would not have the issue.

Also try printing a flattened PDF rather than directly from VW - or vice versa - we found that the end result can be quite different.

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