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Reccuring plot maker problem....

Anonymous — Fri, 19 May 2023 20:25:38 GMT

I have had this problem in the past, and I've never been able to solve it without completely re-creating the plotmaker book, which I cannot justify wasting time on anymore. I print my entire workbook and several pages (seemingly randomly) will print with just the title block and sheet layout on them, but no drawing. What makes the problem even more interesting is that it seems to do it differently with different printers, when I print to my DocuCentre printer, every page comes out with just a title block, when I print to the Adobe PDF printer, about half come out like this, when I print to the Amyuni Printer, only 2 out of 15 sheets come out blank. I have spent countless hours fiddling, and on the phone with my local reseller, and no viable solution has come from it... Please help me out with this, there has to be something Im missing here, I can no longer take the time to recreate the entire Layout book everytime I want to print something...

cheers,
dan

Re: Reccuring plot maker problem....

Djordje — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 03:01:47 GMT

Daniel wrote:
I have had this problem in the past, and I've never been able to solve it without completely re-creating the plotmaker book, which I cannot justify wasting time on anymore.

This does sound like a memory usage problem. I had this happening sometimes when I publish to printer (DesignJet 500, maxed out) and it prints all the sheets - each one half way through.

Re: Reccuring plot maker problem....

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:20:48 GMT

memory usage on the printer end or the computer end?

Re: Reccuring plot maker problem....

Rakela Raul — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 23:44:39 GMT

printer end

Re: Reccuring plot maker problem....

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 19:30:37 GMT

this problem is really starting to irritate me Today I needed to add an optional floorplan into a drawing set, so I added a layout page to the layout ook, imported the drawing, and everything looks good, but even if I try to print just the new page, it prints a blank page regardless of what printer I use (document centre, HP laserjet, amyuni PDF, or Adobe PDF)....

any ideas?
dan

Re: Reccuring plot maker problem....

Barry Kelly — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 02:32:21 GMT

Daniel wrote:
this problem is really starting to irritate me Today I needed to add an optional floorplan into a drawing set, so I added a layout page to the layout ook, imported the drawing, and everything looks good, but even if I try to print just the new page, it prints a blank page regardless of what printer I use (document centre, HP laserjet, amyuni PDF, or Adobe PDF)....

any ideas?
dan

Just a guess, but is your title block/border one large view or PMK that is overlaying the plan?
When printed is this masking out the plan?

I know the forward/ backward commands work in Plotmaker as we have some trouble with overlapping PMK's sometimes.

May look OK on screen but doesn't always print like that when overlapping.

Barry.

Re: Reccuring plot maker problem....

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 13:09:35 GMT

Well the title block is drawn onto the layout master, which inturn has the viewset from AC brought in, and placed on it. not sure if thats what you meant by overlayed... if you mean is it a separte drawing thats also placed on the layout, then no..

cheers,
dan

Re: Reccuring plot maker problem....

Barry Kelly — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 02:04:50 GMT

Daniel wrote:
Well the title block is drawn onto the layout master, which inturn has the viewset from AC brought in, and placed on it. not sure if thats what you meant by overlayed... if you mean is it a separte drawing thats also placed on the layout, then no..

cheers,
dan

Yes I was thinking of two placed drawings.
Sorry no help from me then.

Barry.

Re: Reccuring plot maker problem....

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 13:46:27 GMT

not a problem, I will keep your comment in mind, for future problems though

cheers,
dan