Hi there,
I'm trying to call out a location in my drawing with a dashed line, but when I print the drawing, the dashes do not show up. They come out as a solid line. I have adjusted the length of the dashes as well as the space between the dashes, but it's still printing the line as a solid. Thoughts?
Are you printing the drawing directly from Solidworks?
If so, try saving it as a PDF and then print it to see if it fixes the issue.
Lol, I just edited my post to say that it worked as a pdf. Why would that be?
Jeff Harper wrote:
In my experience, printing directly from Solidworks kind of sucks.
I ALWAYS save as a PDF and print that way. Besides, it gives the shop floor something to look at without having to open Solidworks.
I actually don't have any idea why your dashed line is not printing correctly. Maybe hit the reset button here and try again (if you have ever changed these settings)?
Outside of that, check your preview when you print directly from Solidworks. Does it show solid there?
Is it a draft quality view by any chance?
I am just grasping at straws here..... Sorry.
Dan,
I messed with the line weights but that didn't do the trick. I guess I'll just print it as a pdf. I have never sat down it front of a brand new version of SW before. I usually work for a company that has been using SW for years and all of the settings have been adjusted as needed. I was just thinking there was some sort of box that I needed to check in order to get it working properly. This is the first time I've ever run into this issue. Thanks for your help Dan-
Hello Jeff,
I'm sorry I'm responding 2 years after you asked the original question, but I ran into the same issue couple days back. By trial and error I've figured out (SW support was of no help), that non-standard lines (dashed/thick/colored) are not printing correctly while there are:
Blocks on the drawing or drawing sheet
and
Non-printable layer is present
Try either breaking the blocks you have in the drawing or removing the non-printable layer. Worked for me (I miss my non-printable layer )
Hope this helped,
Vaclav
Thanks Vaclav
2-1/2 years later (V2019 SP2)- it's still a problem and this fixed it. Hidden lines print solid. I had one non-printable layer. I changed it to printable and then turned the layer off. Hidden lines now print correctly and the layer I didn't want to print, didn't.
Rob
Hello Rob,
nice workaround although I'm not really comfortable with putting that solution in the company templates. However, if you are curious, it is still a problem in V2020 SP1.
Vaclav
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