Light printed drafting

[ron123]

Hi

I'm haveing a problem with printing drafted entities. When I print a wire frame drawing with drafting, the print quality of both the wire frame and the drafting are fine. When I add a surface or a solid to the drawing the drafting lines are bearly visable when printed. I didn't have this problem with version 9 but when I changed to X I did. It almost seems as though some of the memory previously allocated to the drafting entities is being sacrificed to the other entities. Any ideas

[Kannon]

I always have printing problems even in version 9...I have to go into attributes and change my line thickness so it appears to thick to read...then when I print it all of it comes out nice and clean. Otherwise I couldnt see it either.

 

Welcome to the forum!

[3R!< W3NG3R]

When printing in X, there is a box at the bottom left for line thickness. Did you try this?

[ron123]

Thanks for your quick response.

 

Increaseing the line thickness was the first thing I tried, and your right, it solves the printing problem but it makes a big mess on the screen. I used to have the best of both worlds.

 

Thanks

[Guest]

shouldn't there be line width options just through you printer without doing it in mastercam

[3R!< W3NG3R]

Thats what I mean Del, in the print page, thereis a line thickness adjustment only for printing. Works for me.

[Guest]

i gotcha, i thought he was changing it in mastercam.

[ron123]

I've tried both. In the print page, I increased the line width in the "Uniform line width" box and in the "color/width map" box to the max of 5. The wire frame lines thicken as expected but the drafting lines and text remain faint. Keep it come in.

[Justin Beebe at Folsom Tool]

The best results I have gotten with MCX2MR2 for printing are to download X+ then do a screen shot, create a PDF form the clipboard image and then print.