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    Does anyone have this situation? If I draw a viewport with a dashed line type it won't show up on the pdf. It is not on a frozen layer or a non-plot layer. Everything looks good on paperspace but when I print to pdf nothing is there. Change to a continuous linetype and it works.

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    Default Re: Disappearing Viewport

    Quote Originally Posted by RobinASteiger744698 View Post
    Does anyone have this situation? If I draw a viewport with a dashed line type it won't show up on the pdf. It is not on a frozen layer or a non-plot layer. Everything looks good on paperspace but when I print to pdf nothing is there. Change to a continuous linetype and it works.
    which software package and version?
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    Default Re: Disappearing Viewport

    Quote Originally Posted by RobinASteiger744698 View Post
    Does anyone have this situation? If I draw a viewport with a dashed line type it won't show up on the pdf. It is not on a frozen layer or a non-plot layer. Everything looks good on paperspace but when I print to pdf nothing is there. Change to a continuous linetype and it works.
    Same here. Anyone has a resolution for that problem?

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    Default Re: Disappearing Viewport

    Moved from the LUG forum to this one, as I believe it will be better served here.
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    Default Re: Disappearing Viewport

    Standard behavior I believe.

    There are easy workarounds like viewports from objects that have linetypes. https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autoc...997454#M991707

    You could also set the viewport layer to NoPlot, Off, or Frozen and draw the viewport outline as a polyline on another layer as a dashed line.

    I never plot viewport borders, I draw whatever borders I need setting their lineweights thinner than sheet boundaries.

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