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Plotting fill problem.

Anonymous — Fri, 19 May 2023 20:24:52 GMT

We are having problems with a siteplan that will not plot fills properly.
The fills are not plotted as they are drawn (see image of plot).
The plan holds 17196 fills. Are there an upper limit for the number of fills used on a plan?
We are using HP 750C+ and HP 800 plotters and are only experiencing this problem on those plotters, not on printers or to pdf.
HP's latest drivers are being used (althoug old one's).
I know it looks like a driver problem but other plans with less fills plotts properly.

Any suggestions.

Re: Plotting fill problem.

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 23:35:01 GMT

It sounds like you are running into some limits in either the HPGL language or the memory in the plotter. I have seen similar problems with image files in both HPGL/RTL and other (non-Postscript/PDF) print drivers.

If printing works that is probably your best bet (if the line weights are OK).

Re: Plotting fill problem.

Djordje — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 03:25:06 GMT

Are you PLOTTING or PRINTING?

Try PRINTING ... if your memory is maxed out, especially on the 800, it should go well. 450 is a bit old machine to handle all this.

Re: Plotting fill problem.

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:46:06 GMT

Thank you for your ansvers.

I'm printing to these plotters with the same result on both.
Yesterday a colleague of mine saved the plan as 8.1 and it printed fine!
She's printing directly from AC with ghost story active and
the size of a ps-file is 9.9 Mb.

The plan originates from AC 7.0 and has migrated thru 8.1 to 9.0.

By the way, it's a HP 750C+ not a 450, and they are using driver 10.4
with PPD 2.0.

Re: Plotting fill problem.

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 09:10:42 GMT

OK! Now I've tried a different story in the same pln-file and
it printed fine. This story has fewer fills though (about 50%).
So again, is there a limit in used fills on a floorplan in AC 9.0?

Re: Plotting fill problem.

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:59:59 GMT

Try printing to PDF and see if the fills are OK. If so, then it is probably a printer problem, if not then perhaps it is an ArchiCAD bug. By the lack of response to the particular question of a limit on the number of fills, it appears that no one knows of any such limitation.

Re: Plotting fill problem.

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:21:36 GMT

I've tried that, and it's OK, but it takes for ever to print such a PDF.
And I don't like workarounds I'm kind of lazy

I'm also being harassed by my boss about it.
My boss being a person who blames everything on 9.0 and still
works in 7.0