30 mins. to plot 1.8 MB drawing

[cufarmer]

It takes 30 minutes to plot a shaded 3D drawing @ 1.8 MB. The plot file is showing up @ 700 MB (huge) and sometimes the plot wont finish (only plot half of drawing) the plotters a xerox 8825 and I'm plotting in black (no color) the part that does plot looks good. Also, when I publish the same drawing to dwf, it takes forever (never did get it to show up on screen) to show up on screen. System is a Pentium 4 with 504mb PC2100 ram, 64mb onboard graphics.

[Dean Saadallah]

Your driver controls plot file size, so does your DWG file content. You
provide no details about either: there is no relationship between DWG file
size and PLOT file size.

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[Dennis Hyman]

If your drawing has images attached, that can cause the size of the plot to
increase significantly.

You may want to try spooling your drawing inside your computer, rather than
in the printer. It sounds like the printer is running out of memory, which
is why you would only get half the drawing. I'm not sure how the dwf file
works, but I'm sure it's similar to plotting, in a sense. Same problem
there, too....


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It takes 30 minutes to plot a shaded 3D drawing @ 1.8 MB. The plot file is
showing up @ 700 MB (huge) and sometimes the plot wont finish (only plot

half of drawing) the plotters a xerox 8825 and I'm plotting in black (no
color) the part that does plot looks good. Also, when I publish the same
drawing to dwf, it takes forever (never did get it to show up on screen) to
show up on screen. System is a Pentium 4 with 504mb PC2100 ram, 64mb onboard
graphics.

[cufarmer]

Here is a pic of what drivers I know about. if these aren't it give me a clue to what I need to inclue. Also, I cant attach the actual drawing because it is 8.5 MB, sorry. I thank you for your help

[Dennis Hyman]

Ummm....html tags don't work in a newsgroup reader. Attach the image
directly please.


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Here is a pic of what drivers I know about. if these aren't it give me a
clue to what I need to inclue. Also, I cant attach the actual drawing

because it is 8.5 MB, sorry. I thank you for your help

[Patrick]

We have found that certain fonts also push up the plot file size.


Patrick

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