Mar 9, 2013 - By tennis4you, March 9, 2013 in AutoCAD Drawing Management &. I dropped the top number to 400 and the stucco hatch and AR-Sand.
So in an effort to reduce PDF file size, I went to the dwg to pdf.pc3 plot driver and wen tot he custom properties. The dpi is set to: 600 400 400 400 I dropped the top number to 400 and the stucco hatch and AR-Sand hatch both print weird when we print to PDF.
Some of the hatch is fine, some comes out too dark. It's pretty weird.
If I leave the settings as the default then it prints perfectly fine. Anyone know why those hatches might be affected by dropping the dpi? Everything else appears to print great and the file size is reduced. Thanks for the quick reply! So one of the hatches I am using that is turning out weird is a MicroStation Hatch that I had converted over.
That one does not surprise me. The one that shocks me is the AR-Sand standard AutoCAD hatch. I am putting it in as scale 3.0 and it is printing weird too. They both print weird when the PDF goes to the physical printer. So it views weird and prints weird. Even if it just looked weird on the PDF that would be a problem because I provide clients with PDFs of their home and they want those PDFs to look sharp (as do I).
AutoCAD and PDFs have not gotten along very well for a long time. Since you rely heavily on exchanging and viewing your drawing electronically, I would highly recommend that you look into a different format like DXF for which Autodesk offers a free viewer.
That being said, there are free PDF makers available that you could try. I've used and recommend Cute PDF. I prefer PrimoPDF (I use this at home) slightly over CutePDF, but both are the best free PDF plotters, my boss uses AutoCAD 2005 and CutePDF and I had to work on some drawings with hatches for him once or twice. I believe hatches are just a Pain for PDF in general. I seldom see a difference from DWG to PDF.pc3 and Adobe PDF or the others on my 2011 AutoCAD. But, as mentioned by RobDraw, DXF may be your best solution.
Hatch Pattern Tutorial For AutoCAD 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004 LT 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004 In brief: Copy and paste the entire contents of my file hatch_pattern_code.txt into your acad.pat hatch file and your acadiso.pat hatch file (aclt.pat and acltiso.pat hatch files for LT). Make sure there is a carriage return at the end of the last line. Programmi dlya lecheniya akkumulyatora noutbuka.
You will then see the new hatch patterns alongside the standard AutoCAD patterns in the “Other Predefined” tab when using the BHATCH command. In more detail: You need to locate your existing two standard AutoCAD (or LT) hatch files, open them in a text editor, then copy the hatch pattern code from my file (hatch_pattern_code.txt) into them. The standard AutoCAD hatch files are acad.pat and acadiso.pat (aclt.pat and acltiso.pat for LT). Acad.pat contains the hatch patterns used in imperial drawings, and acadiso.pat contains the hatch patterns used in metric drawings. The patterns in both files are the same except for the dimensions used.
Hatch pattern files (.pat) are just ordinary text files consisting mainly of numbers, which is the code AutoCAD uses to draw the hatches. Typically you will find the hatch files in this directory (folder): c: Documents and Settings (your username) Application Data Autodesk (AutoCAD or LT version) enu support The “Application Data” directory is a hidden one, and might not be visible on your system. To make it visible, go into Windows Explorer (for Windows XP: start > All Programs > Accessories > Windows Explorer) then browse to the c: Documents and Settings (your username) directory. Click on: Tools > Folder Options then click on the “View” tab.
Under “Advanced Settings: Hidden files and folders” select “Show hidden files and folders” then hit “OK”. This will make the “Application Data” directory visible, and allow you to locate the.pat hatch pattern files. (The above example shows the drive letter “c: ”. This might be different on your system, but the directory structure will be the same.) If the hatch files are not in this directory (by default they will be) then you will need to search for them.
Search for them in Windows Explorer by hitting the “Search” button, selecting “All files and folders”, then entering *.pat in the file name search box. Select “My Computer” from the “Look in:” list. Then hit “Search”. This will give you the locations of your hatch files.
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You might have more than one acad.pat file (or more than one acadiso.pat, aclt.pat, acltiso.pat file). In which case you should use the one that is highest in the “Support File Search Path” list, or use any one and move the directory that it is in to the top of the “Support File Search Path” list (see below). When you are happy that you have located the acad.pat and acadiso.pat files that you are working with (aclt.pat and acltiso.pat files for LT) you need to open them and paste my hatch pattern code into them. Open the files by double-clicking on them, then selecting Notepad to edit them, or any other PLAIN TEXT editor. If you use something like Word, you could end up with formatting that will have an adverse effect on the operation of the patterns.