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Views on drawing not printing

Views on drawing not printing

Views on drawing not printing

(OP)
   I am trying to print some drawings.  The title blocks and the dimensions print okay, but not the drawing itself.

   It appears to be happening with page_1 of multiple sheets. The subsequent sheets print okay.  My problem is with two drawings, both attached to the same model.  I have tried hitting the update button and CTRL-Q.  

   Does anybody know what to do here?

                         JHG

RE: Views on drawing not printing

had the same thing here, it was a graphics card issue here. Try right clicking on the windows screen, click properties,settings,advanced,troubleshoot and keep lowering your hardware acceleration until it prints correctly. you can just do a print preview and see if it will print as well. If it's the same problem I had then this will take care of it.

RE: Views on drawing not printing

Does the print preview look OK?

Have you upgraded SW, the video card driver or your printer recently?

cheers

RE: Views on drawing not printing

(OP)
CorBlimeyLimey,

   The print preview was blank, the same as printout.

   I tried to follow rikonen's suggestion, but I was not allowed to change video settings.

   Then, things got more interesting.  Our system administrators went through our computers a few months ago and locked down all our C: drives.  For reasons unrelated to SolidWorks, they unlocked mine, and now my printing problems have done away.  

   I did follow rikonen's advice about video settings.  It worked.  I set the video back and it continued working.  

   I assume it will stop working when they lock everything down again.  :(

                         JHG

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