Foureagles
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Thu Dec 09, 2004 1:56 am Post subject:
Yet another "missing stuff" thread |
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Hey y'all (with an implied "wautch thee-us!):
I just finished (or thought I did) an architectural project for a client, but they had problems with missing entities in the plot. Sho' nuff, when I brought the file back up, it acted just as they described, though it hadn't when I ran a check plot the day before.
To wit:
Certain entities are AWOL in both plot preview and actual ink plot, though they look just fine while editing. There seems no particular pattern to the loss, ie. some vectors of the same polyline are gone, random blocks don't make it, while identical others do, some whole layer sets are missing, while other layers give a wee peek at a few of their objects, etc.
This is a tiny 700k 2-D model x-refed into an 8 tab 600k file with 30 viewports. The x-ref is on its own layer, which is set to plot. Color-dependant plotting, no wonky pen screening, all object properties bylayer. MAXACTVP is set to 64, INDEXCTL (both model & sheets) to 3. Changing these has no effect.
We've tried the dadgum thing in 5 ACAD versions from 14-2002, on 5 different platforms with different versions of Windows, and everything from a fax to a high-end plotter, and nothing changes. If we bind the x-ref, a few more entities show up, and if we explode the resultant block, a few more appear. Never does it all get to ink unless we strip the viewports and send everything to model space.
In browsing the web I've seen several instances of something similar occurring, with some of the fixes we've tried working in a maybe-maybe not manner, but no definitive answer to what the hey is going on. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
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Foureagles
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Thu Dec 09, 2004 10:04 pm Post subject:
Re: Yet another "missing stuff" thread |
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Thanks for the reply Dean:
I did a check plot the day before sending the file, and it was perfect. The recipient didn't change anything before plotting, and I believe we were both working with 2000i on XP. We did try R14 & 2002 on a few different versions of Windows, different platforms, different plotters, etc.
When I pulled-up my original (not returned) file, I found the same problem, which seems to imply some mysterious time related issue. I forgot to mention that there were intimations of a problem early in the project when some hatch patterns were missing on a plot of the first sheet. I tried everything I could think of without finding the problem and, magically, it fixed itself the next day, only to come back and bite me in the butt.
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