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    Default Can't plot parts of drawing

    I have run into an issue with plotting where the information is on the drawing and shows up fine. However, when I go to plot preview, or simply plot, only some of the drawing shows up. Many parts to the drawing are missing. This currently occurs only on AutoCAD 2008. When the drawing is opened in AutoCAD 2009, everything works fine.

    My questions are:
    1. Why does everything work fine in AutoCAD 2009? Did they make major changes to the plot style or is there something I am missing?
    2. The information is imported from an outside program as blocks. I have tried exploding blocks but it does not change what shows up on the plot preview.

    There are many more possible variables to this issue, but I would like to see if anyone could help me out based on previous problems with plotting parts of drawings. If anyone could direct me to the appropriate thread, it would be much appreciated. I seem to be having the same problem as this website:

    http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/2009/...t-of-the-plot/

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    Default Re: Can't plot parts of drawing

    Have you audited the drawing(s)? We find that resolves the issue in 2008 in most cases.
    R. Robert Bell
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    Default Re: Can't plot parts of drawing

    We've run across this from time to time as well.

    This appears to be related to 2008 as the same drawing plots (and previews) properly in 2009.

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    Default Re: Can't plot parts of drawing

    Yes, I managed to recover the drawings and then they worked fine. I just find it somewhat tedious to recover every drawing we create in order for it to work correctly when it just works on 2009. Oh well. Thanks!

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