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!
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.
Have you tried to compress the created output PDF with full version adobe acrobat ( not reader) and use reduce file size option?
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Unknown said:I was recently fiddling with the plot setting in the pdf.pltcfg file and found that if I changed the units in the "advanced" tab for the resolution to centimeters it reduced the file size dramatically I just increased the resolution and the pdf looks great. Hopefully this helps someone.
what were the settings before you changed to centimeters?
in the print attributes or settings under raster there is a slider bar that you can temporarily change the raster resolution without effecting the vector resolution, by default its 50%, try changing this to less it wont save the change or alter the driver but you can make trial and error shots to see what effect the change makes to the pdfs... both look and size... I think for an A0 print to pdf and then pdf to paper it wont make a lot of difference to the look of the paper print even if you use 25% but will make a big difference to the pdf MB size...