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When printing strange dots appear!

When printing strange dots appear!

When printing strange dots appear!

(OP)
When printing plan & profile sheets or cross section sheets I have a very small grid on the sheets made up of many lines.  The lines are a light colored DOT style.  The drawing looks fine and so does print preview.  Once printed about 1% of the intersection of the horizontal and vertical lines will have a very dark dot, the rest will be their normal light color.  Why is this happening?

RE: When printing strange dots appear!

Could the dots from a horizontal line and a vertical "not exactly" lay on top of each other and look like a "big" dot?

"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." — Will Rogers

RE: When printing strange dots appear!

Try Grid Off

RE: When printing strange dots appear!

No, the grid will not print.  Your problem seems to be that your grid is made up of an ISO linetype that can be loaded when you are in the layer properties manager. Dont mix ISO linetypes with drawings having Imperial dimensions.

RE: When printing strange dots appear!

(OP)
Could the dots from a horizontal line and a vertical "not exactly" lay on top of each other and look like a "big" dot?
------No, they are exact at the intersections, and in some
      spots there are dark dots on the line where there is
      not an intersection.


Try Grid Off
------No dark dots with grid off, but the grid has to be
      on.


No, the grid will not print.  Your problem seems to be that your grid is made up of an ISO linetype that can be loaded when you are in the layer properties manager. Dont mix ISO linetypes with drawings having Imperial dimensions.
------The grid will print.  Imperial dimensions??? I don't
      think we use imperial dimensions.

RE: When printing strange dots appear!

Make sure all layers are on and thawed.  Can you select the dots?  Are they construction points?

RE: When printing strange dots appear!

(OP)
Make sure all layers are on and thawed.  Can you select the dots?  Are they construction points?
------All layers are on and thawed.  That's the thing,
      you cannot select the dots, they are not construction
      points or nodes, there is nothing there, that I am
      100% sure of. Everything looks fine on the computer
      but when printing I get about 100 dark black dots
      in addition to the few thousand or so light colored
      dots that are suppose to be there.

RE: When printing strange dots appear!

Back up one.  Did you say that with grid off the dots go away and do not print?  But with grid on they are there and print?  Grid on/off is function key F7.  Please clarify.

RE: When printing strange dots appear!

(OP)
Sorry, not the grid that CAD makes with F7, it's just a grid that I drew made of a bunch of lines with a dot linetype.  The CAD grid is off.

RE: When printing strange dots appear!

ARE ALL THE DOTS THE SAME COLOR?  THIS SOUNDS LIKE A PLOT SETTING

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