Printing to pdf is extremely slow when printing 3d models that are referenced in

I am attempting to show plan and isometric views of the existing and proposed piping of a water treatment plant on a plan sheet.

Printing to pdf of the model of the water treatment plant works fine until I bring it in as a reference onto the plan sheet.

Printing the plan sheet with the referenced model can take upwards of 10 minutes to print the file to pdf.

I have been using the provided pdf.pltcfg to print to pdf with Rasterized clicked.

The files being generated are less that 2MB so I don't understand why it takes so long. 

Printing the same file (the plan sheet) to hpgl generates an image extremely quickly, 5-10 second, however the 3D geometry is converted to wireframe in the .hpgl print. 

Any help on how to reduce the time of the print would be much appreciated.

  • How the reference is been attached?

    Have you tried with cached view?

    From help:

    "Stores a local cache for a reference of the visible edge process. In it, the reference is kept live but the visible hidden edge display is not regenerated."

    Regards

    José

  • Unknown said:

    I am attempting to show plan and isometric views of the existing and proposed piping of a water treatment plant on a plan sheet.

    Printing to pdf of the model of the water treatment plant works fine until I bring it in as a reference onto the plan sheet.

    Printing the plan sheet with the referenced model can take upwards of 10 minutes to print the file to pdf.

    I have been using the provided pdf.pltcfg to print to pdf with Rasterized clicked.

    The files being generated are less that 2MB so I don't understand why it takes so long. 

    Printing the same file (the plan sheet) to hpgl generates an image extremely quickly, 5-10 second, however the 3D geometry is converted to wireframe in the .hpgl print. 

    Any help on how to reduce the time of the print would be much appreciated.

    copy pdf.pltcfg and rename it to PDF_ DPIXXX.pltcfg

    then from the print dialog  you can recall this PDF_ DPIXXX.pltcfg then use the  file >edit printer driver  

    under advance change the  resolution from default 600 dpi to 120 dpi

    Also under base properties > driver properties turn off

    enable optional content

    enable searchable text

    RGB RASTER COMPRESSION  change this  from ZIP to  JPEG  ( this makes big difference with air photos etc)

    I dont think you should need to  tick the rasterise  in the dialog box  next to print preview ... but you can do before and after...

    if this works and you happy with the results then rename  it again  and change the XXX to the 120 dpi or what ever ends up best..

    Also the destination you send the saved pdf to can make a big impact on speed ,  my experience is that the local hard drive is faster than the network and usually doent  have  excessive anti virus  checking like the network does...

    What all the changes do is  get rid of optional things like level  layering in the pdf and turns text into part of the picture ie raster instead of text searchable objects

    you can also edit the raster quality  if you have rasters attached  the default is 50% try lowering it to 45 or 40 % 

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