Contours not printing

[Tom Phillips]

I just but the finishing touches on a site drainage plan and a erosion control plan. Hit the print button and walk to the plotter (HP800) and the new contours are not plotting, the existing one are there with the both solid and hidden (modified areas). Any reason why the new contours will not print? I'm using RAC 2010.

[Scott Womack]

There are several possibilities. The view you printed was set to be existing only, you did not save the work to the central file (assuming worksets were activated) etc. A little more information might allow some better guesses.

[Tom Phillips]

A few hours after creating this post, and with lots of pondering, trail and error, including creating a pdf file (with the same results as the plotter), I finally figured it out. The problem was that the existing topo needed the graphic override to be "Transparent". The new topo design had several swales that cut into the existing, thus placing the new swales (contour lines) below the existing contours. With Model Graphic Style set to "Hidden Line" the existing contour was hiding the new. Strangely I could see the new swale contours on my screen and just figured it would print.?? So problem solved for now. :]

One for the memory bank.

Sorry for this late "problem solved" post, busy end of week and weekend.

[patricks]

We have always shown grading plans using the Wireframe view style, for this very reason. However lately I've been more inclined to override the toposurfaces themselves to be transparent and leave everything else as hidden line.