This is both highly inefficient, and displeasing to my boss (who would prefer me use the new software and new computer that he just bought for me to use). How are hidden lines drawn Hidden lines are used to show surfaces that are not directly visible. Specify an insertion point in your current drawing for the 2D hidden line projection. In a 3D view select one or more objects that you want to use to create your hidden line projection, and press Enter. So far my 'work around' is to send myself the CAD file over the network so that I can use our old AutoCAD to plot to PDF. Open the tool palette that you want to use, and select a hidden line projection tool. So it appears that progeCAD treats the plotting job differently when the hidden lines function is set to ON. I changed the thickness of my lines in ctb and still have lines missing. I use the plotter also on a pc and there are no problems at all. However, when i plot a 2D drawing the generated file size is small as expected.Ī supervisor has suggested that the difference between the two programs may be that AutoCAD generates a vector image, while progeCAD generates a bitmap image. Lines are always missing when I print especially medium to thin lines or hidden lines or for example hatch tile lines.

After some trial and error with the print quality settings within progeCAD, we were able to make the plotted PDF appear smooth (at the expense of even higher file size). The progeCAD manual states that the program cannot plot with hidden lines at all, which is confusing to me. (For example, a PDF created with AutoCAD that is around 50kb is coming out of progeCAD at about 1Mb). The company that I work for has recently switched from using AutoCAD to progeCAD, and we cannot figure out a way to plot our drawings to PDF with the hidden lines function set to ON without the file sizes being unreasonably large.

Autocad printing hidden lines