How to get a good print off of somebody's else drawings?
How to get a good print off of somebody's else drawings?
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Ok, here is my situation. I receive a *.dwg format drawing in a CD from somebody, in my case the Architect. I can open the drawing easily enough although it is done in Paper Space while we do most of our drawings in Model space. Of course, as most of you would know, the text fonts, layer properties, colors, etc. are completely strange as it is done in somebody's else. We also mainly use just a few colors (white, green, blue, red, purple, thin, etc.) but the drawings from the architect contains all the colors in the template.
When I try to make a print of the drawing, I see very blurred lines and very blurred text. The text even appears to be "fused". There is none of those very sharp lines that you get from any *.dwg drawing. I suspect the these "fused and blurred" lines and text were done as blocks in the original drawings, and since I do not have the same settings as the architect, am not able to print the drawings properly.
I tried to "cut and paste" the architects and bring it into my own drawing but a lot of information information are missing! These must be the "reference blocks" while are not in my file. I tried "exploding" the Contractor's blocks but they would not be "exploded".
Could someone please advise how to get a good print off of somebody's else's drawings, and/or what my particular problem is, and how to rectify it?
Thanks a bunch.
When I try to make a print of the drawing, I see very blurred lines and very blurred text. The text even appears to be "fused". There is none of those very sharp lines that you get from any *.dwg drawing. I suspect the these "fused and blurred" lines and text were done as blocks in the original drawings, and since I do not have the same settings as the architect, am not able to print the drawings properly.
I tried to "cut and paste" the architects and bring it into my own drawing but a lot of information information are missing! These must be the "reference blocks" while are not in my file. I tried "exploding" the Contractor's blocks but they would not be "exploded".
Could someone please advise how to get a good print off of somebody's else's drawings, and/or what my particular problem is, and how to rectify it?
Thanks a bunch.





RE: How to get a good print off of somebody's else drawings?
file on the net to have a look at it?
RE: How to get a good print off of somebody's else drawings?
RE: How to get a good print off of somebody's else drawings?
RE: How to get a good print off of somebody's else drawings?
"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." — Will Rogers
RE: How to get a good print off of somebody's else drawings?
Among other problems, the drawings you get in may be in color when you only print in B&W, or may be in paper sizes you don't support.
RE: How to get a good print off of somebody's else drawings?
RE: How to get a good print off of somebody's else drawings?
Unfortunately there's no easy way to change all their layer colors short of actually changing all their layer colors, at least not that I'm aware of. They might have drafted using a black background which would be very hard to read against a black modelspace; if so, then you can just turn paperspace black and it'll be easier to see on screen.