Win 10 Pro
QCAD 3.27.1 and 3.28.7
Some of the blocks in the attached drawing (x_MAVMK1SPOT and x_ALTWRK) do not seem to render properly in the "Rep Plot (ARCH C)" layout block. They appear to render fine in the "Rep Plot" block, and in their own block definition space, but not in the layout. When I exported a PDF and printed it, I had the same problem. When I hover over the drawing, those blocks will temporarily appear correctly, but only while hovering over the Rep Plot block.
I will say all of the specific light fixture blocks (all the ones that start with "x_") were downloaded from the manufacturers' websites and they seem like they were generated very terribly on their end, so I'm wondering if there is something extra hiding in those blocks that is causing an issue?
I have both versions of QCAD that I mentioned above and they both have the same issue.
[solved] Block rendering issue
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ryancousins
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[solved] Block rendering issue
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Re: Block rendering issue
Hi,
in QCAD 3.27.1 it looks like this on my monitor. Looks good to me ...
I noticed that x_ALTWRK is drawn on layer 0 with a line weight of 0.00. Maybe you need to increase that value ...
Lineweight for x_MAVMK1SPOT looks good to me.
Is for printing "Print all Lines as Hairlines" activated? If yes try to turn that off.
in QCAD 3.27.1 it looks like this on my monitor. Looks good to me ...
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Lineweight for x_MAVMK1SPOT looks good to me.
Is for printing "Print all Lines as Hairlines" activated? If yes try to turn that off.
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Re: Block rendering issue
Hi ryancousins
I can also confirm this works and displays correctly in current version on Linux Mint 20.3
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I can also confirm this works and displays correctly in current version on Linux Mint 20.3
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ryancousins
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Re: Block rendering issue
Thanks John and Husky.
After a little more investigation I noticed that changing between color and B&W print mode in the print preview had an effect. It turns out some of the line segments and arcs of each of those two blocks were set to a fixed color and specific line weight while others were set to by-layer. Those blocks are pretty bad. I get the feeling they were generated from some other non-vector file because they're constructed with a ton of little segments and arcs. What a mess.
Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction.
After a little more investigation I noticed that changing between color and B&W print mode in the print preview had an effect. It turns out some of the line segments and arcs of each of those two blocks were set to a fixed color and specific line weight while others were set to by-layer. Those blocks are pretty bad. I get the feeling they were generated from some other non-vector file because they're constructed with a ton of little segments and arcs. What a mess.
Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction.