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drawoh

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Oct 1, 2002
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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
 
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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.
 
Does the print preview look OK?

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

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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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