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Plotmaker Not Printing Certain Pens

Dave Jochum — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 16:07:21 GMT

This has happened to me in the past and I can't remember what caused/fixed it. Now I'm under a deadline (of course) and it's happening again. Certain pens/colors in imported AC drawings are not printing and some lines are not printing at the correct line weight (all too fat). I have set each drawing to output in B&W, True Weight is selected, and everything else looks fine. Choosing Pens & Colors in PM does not show all the pens/colors used in the imported AC drawings. Any ideas?

Re: Plotmaker Not Printing Certain Pens

__archiben — Fri, 31 Oct 2003 21:18:44 GMT

try selecting the drawing that has been imported and and then go to 'pens and colours' - i think that there is an option to show those only in use in the selected drawing . . .

8.1, (and with it plotmaker 3.1), has the ability now to override the archicad penset for particular drawings and stick with those you have defined. if you tend to adjust pens in plotmaker a lot, moving to 3.1 would be a worthwhile (and free!) upgrade.

~/archiben

Re: Plotmaker Not Printing Certain Pens

Anonymous — Fri, 31 Oct 2003 21:29:03 GMT

8.1, (and with it plotmaker 3.1), has the ability now to override the archicad penset for particular drawings and stick with those you have defined. if you tend to adjust pens in plotmaker a lot, moving to 3.1 would be a worthwhile (and free!) upgrade.

8.0 has this ability too. What PlotMaker 3.0 doesn't seem to be able to do is remember a scale adjustment on PlotMaker that is different than the original. I hope this is fixed in 3.1, I'm still waiting for my copy.

Re: Plotmaker Not Printing Certain Pens

Dave Jochum — Fri, 31 Oct 2003 21:52:04 GMT

Yeah...I forgot to select the imported drawing before choosing Pens & Colors. So now all pens show with the correct line weights. I still can't figure out why certain pens/colors aren't printing and why some line weights are printing incorrectly.

Re: Plotmaker Not Printing Certain Pens

Ben Odonnell — Fri, 31 Oct 2003 22:36:44 GMT

~/archiben wrote:
try selecting the drawing that has been imported and and then go to 'pens and colours' - i think that there is an option to show those only in use in the selected drawing . . .

8.1, (and with it plotmaker 3.1), has the ability now to override the archicad penset for particular drawings and stick with those you have defined. if you tend to adjust pens in plotmaker a lot, moving to 3.1 would be a worthwhile (and free!) upgrade.

~/archiben

You are right and this function works like a charm. I have tested it and used it a lot.

Re: Plotmaker Not Printing Certain Pens

Karl Ottenstein — Sat, 01 Nov 2003 04:36:52 GMT

virtual-e-home wrote:
What PlotMaker 3.0 doesn't seem to be able to do is remember a scale adjustment on PlotMaker that is different than the original. I hope this is fixed in 3.1, I'm still waiting for my copy.

Hi Brian,

Yup! Take a look at the screenshot that Ben posted above. Scale can be remembered as can layer modifications. I'm really happy that this is working. I bring in various isometrics (NTS) and scale them to fit the page, with notes/etc flowing around them - and with 3.0, they got resized after every update. Happily, they are keeping their adjusted scale/size now. 😉

Karl

Re: Plotmaker Not Printing Certain Pens

Dave Jochum — Sat, 01 Nov 2003 07:10:28 GMT

I finally got all drawings to print correctly--wish I knew how I did it! Since I had a fast approaching deadline I just did everything I could think of at once and hoped for the best, rather than one at a time to flesh out the culprit. I restarted my computer (and so AC), set all my imported drawings to print in B&W, and chose color as output preference in all print dialog boxes. (I previously had chosen "all colors to black" in both PM and GimpPrint dialogues--maybe GimpPrint was having trouble with these settings??)