Hi, Any help you be great - i have been working on this for a few days.
I have generated construction drawings from a substation model by creating a drawing (not sheet) view in the model then placed that view as a reference on a construction drawing. The first issues i had was the drawing that was reference was not sowing up in the print, after a bunch of clicking I found that if i set the Nested Attachments to copy attachments the drawing showed up in the PDF. Now that i can see the model I tried printing - it takes minutes to print and generates >17mB file for one drawing (A01) raster is turned off as well as 3D plotting . I could reduce the resolution but i would prefer not to. When I look at the construction drawing from the side (3D orientation) I see the complete model with the drawing border and any elements on that drawing as a line thought the model. I suspect the PDF driver is capturing all this information. Am i doing something incorrect in setting up the construction drawing or the Bentley PDF driver. We using a drawing view instead of a sheet view for the reference so we could configure the drawing. We could not get hidden line to display properly when the reference was a sheet view. The model is 36mB. I have tried with a Bluebeam driver and got the same result.
Thanks for any help!
So I noticed I was still having an issue with hidden lines so I tracked that down to the postion of the title block in the drawing - it was drawn as a block and the block was acting as a solid, I changes the boarder to lines. That seem to work. Now when I go to print and uncheck "Print to 3D" the preview times out :(
i successfully created a 40MB PDF file
I tried printing a sheet view - 7MB
Erik, when printing the drawing view, you can try turning off the options in the pdf.pltcfg that you do not need, such as searchable text, georeferencing, etc., this may cut down on the size of the PDF being created. You can also try setting the RGB raster compression to JPG in the Driver Properties section, and the resolution to 300,300 in the Advanced section. This may help as well. Let me know if this helps any.
Thanks Dawn -Sadly it did not. I tried all the settings - it looks like I have so many line elements that is just overwhelming. I might have to play with the raster system but would prefer not to have to go that route.
Erik, so you are not creating a 3d PDF right, it's 2d? Would it be possible to get the data to take a look here? Maybe I can figure out something else.