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Mysterious line on pdf
Posted by lsitnj on January 20, 2020 at 5:09 pmGents
Mysterious line only shows in pdf. It’s not visible in model space nor paper space-all layers on. What’s causing it?
jakkanen replied 4 years, 2 months ago 16 Members · 23 Replies- 23 Replies
A ghost line
I would use list command and try to identify the entity.
It may be a line that is the same color as your screen background or some other color that is invisible onscreen.
You could use delete command to see if it exists and erase it.
goodluck
If you have tried all the usual stuff, I would run AUDIT on the drawing file. Chances are it will find and fix an error or two.
If that does not work, -PURGE would be my next move.
“…people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.” -Neil PostmanTry a different print driver. I usually use dwgtopdf to good effect.
@norman-oklahoma
bluebeam and dwg to pdf show the same thing
Turn off all the layers in the drawing and then generate another pdf. If the line still shows up there’s a good chance it’s the print driver. The only other “might be” I can think of is to slam the dwg flat with no 3d and see if it still shows up. Can’t help but think paper space is the culprit although you’ve tried it in model space also.
Erase ALL then deselect everything left drag style…?
It??s probably left over from the BLM??s BOGUS theory of section breakdown -
….sorry couldn??t help myself….
One thing that get rid of phantom lines or objects is to thaw all that you want to keep and wblock it into a clean drawing. You will have to do any paperspace setups and entities in a separate move so for multi sheet sets this is a pain. I had a drawing that wouldn’t let go of a deleted line once and this was the only thing that worked.
—Dan MacIsaac, PLSNow that made me laugh!!! Good one, Rankin.
Using ACAD reminds me of a bunch of villagers sitting around wondering if the rain god is going to do its thing.
Sometimes we just don’t question why it does certain things. There is nothing we can do, and we just find work arounds.
I would probably just obliterate the line in the .pdf drawing and try not to say anything bad about ACAD in case it decides to frown on you again.
-All thoughts my own, except my typos and when I am wrong.- Posted by: @dmyhill
Using ACAD reminds me of a bunch of villagers sitting around wondering if the rain god is going to do its thing.
Sometimes we just don’t question why it does certain things. There is nothing we can do, and we just find work arounds.
I would probably just obliterate the line in the .pdf drawing and try not to say anything bad about ACAD in case it decides to frown on you again.
That is a perfect analogy.
ps – things about Auto Cad that have made me go hmmm….I never could figger out why Acad 10 would crash if you rotated a circle about its center point and then regenerated the dwg. I just learned to accept it. The boss finally bought Acad 12 so it was a moot point….
It??s called a glitch.
Gotta love the companies that use their customers as unpaid beta testers.
I have had that comic tacked to my wall for twenty years. Back in the 1980’s we thought we were special to get the “newest version”.
Today I lag a ways behind.
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