Everything turning grey

[Beancud]

Hi folks,

I was wondering if anyone has a solution to this. We have several drawings thats having an issue with plotting.

When we plot or print or pdf a drawing the entire sheet turns into light / faint grey - almost like shadowy effect.

I have checked the CTB, line types, Pen styles, plot by colour etc etc. Everything is pre assigned to our office set up. The drawings print perfectly from my pc with the right line thickness and pen darkness. However when my colleague try to print it everything turns grey.

I have checked for consistency, apart from what I have noted above - same version of drawings, autocad, plot configurations. It looks like AutoCAD is ignoring everything and printing the drawings out in very faint lines.

I am no sure what gives, the strange thing is when we open another drawing within the same set and print it comes out fine, so we go back to our no good drawing and print with previous print setting, the drawing looks fine.

So afterwards I have re inserted the page style and plot style from the drawing thats working properly, but it still comes out grey and faint.....

I am now looking at template issues, some unkown plot command running... any advice / solution will be apreciated!

[Jack Cheong]

Hi folks,

I was wondering if anyone has a solution to this. We have several drawings thats having an issue with plotting.

When we plot or print or pdf a drawing the entire sheet turns into light / faint grey - almost like shadowy effect.

I have checked the CTB, line types, Pen styles, plot by colour etc etc. Everything is pre assigned to our office set up. The drawings print perfectly from my pc with the right line thickness and pen darkness. However when my colleague try to print it everything turns grey.

I have checked for consistency, apart from what I have noted above - same version of drawings, autocad, plot configurations. It looks like AutoCAD is ignoring everything and printing the drawings out in very faint lines.

I am no sure what gives, the strange thing is when we open another drawing within the same set and print it comes out fine, so we go back to our no good drawing and print with previous print setting, the drawing looks fine.

So afterwards I have re inserted the page style and plot style from the drawing thats working properly, but it still comes out grey and faint.....

I am now looking at template issues, some unkown plot command running... any advice / solution will be apreciated!

How about the Plot Preview, what you see in the preview, is it grey or colorfull?
Check the Page Setup for the plotting in the Plot dialog box, you may select the Page Setup which plot in grey color, try other Page Setup, Preview before you plot, this always is a good habit to prevent the wrong plotting

Jack Cheong

[Beancud]

How about the Plot Preview, what you see in the preview, is it grey or colorfull?
Check the Page Setup for the plotting in the Plot dialog box, you may select the Page Setup which plot in grey color, try other Page Setup, Preview before you plot, this always is a good habit to prevent the wrong plotting

Jack Cheong

Yes I do that everytime, even when I preview it turns grey.

I have rigolosly checked the pagesetup and the CTB setting which is assoicated to it. This shouldn't be a pagesetup issues as pagesetup changes sheet size and utilize the associated CTB format.

The plot style is set to plot by pen colour yet this drawing seems to ignore everything and greys everything.

I have a feeling my co-worker worked at home on his AutoCAD 2009 which done some funny thing to it.....

[ehug]

I have had the something similiar happen to me....
I have objects in my drawing that are on separate layers, with different layer colors but when I do a print preview (before my plot) everything changes to grey.
You could see my posts if you looked at user name and search posts by:

Have you come to a solution?

[Richard.Kent]

MVIEW, Shadeplot, As Displayed, all ...

Maybe this is the solution.

[robert.1.hall72202]

Are you using a .pc3?

[jaberwok]

Page setup manager - top right - under the plot style table is a check box marked - display plot styles. If it's checked, uncheck it.

[ehug]

Richard.Kent.... this does not work, but it was great learning a new command. I got my sheet set to the way it was supposed to look, but when I did the print preview, everything went back to grey...

[ehug]

Robert.Hall... I am not using .pc3.... should I?

[ehug]

Jaberwok.... My Plot Style Table is set at NONE... in fact, I dodn't have a plot style, never used them.
There are several dozen different plot styles listed, and I can get same of the items to plot in their true color, but not all, by selecting "true colors" plot style.
But thanks for the suggestion...

[tedg]

Richard.Kent.... this does not work, but it was great learning a new command. I got my sheet set to the way it was supposed to look, but when I did the print preview, everything went back to grey...
I think Robert.Hall is probably on to something.
If you're using a "system printer" driver instead of a PC3, than you usually get undesirable results like grayed-out line work, even though you have the correct ctb file.

That's what I've found with people in my office anyway.
If they pick the system printer name from the printer/plotter list versus the PC3 that was created for it, they get the same problems you're describing.

[ehug]

Thanks for the reply TedG... The problem I am having seems to be isolated to this drawing. I can xref this drawing into another drawing and it seems to plot the way I want it too... Plus I am not having problems plotting any other projects on the plotters/printers we already have.

[ehug]

Page setup manager - top right - under the plot style table is a check box marked - display plot styles. If it's checked, uncheck it.

Nope.... this doesn't work.

[scott.wilcox]

Did you run an audit on the suspect dwg? How about insert the dwg into a blank dwg and use designcenter to transfer your layout tabs?

This may be related to a viewport. Try creating a new viewport and Matchprop and VPSYNC them.

[nextvkin]

...Plot with plot styles in dialog box checked?