THE ARCHITECTURE OF 3D PRINTING - 06 INTERIOR DESIGN THE ARCHITECTURE OF 3D PRINTING - 05 HIGH RESOLUTION BUILDING FACADES THE ARCHITECTURE OF 3D PRINTING - 04 ENTOURAGE THE ARCHITECTURE OF 3D PRINTING - 03 TOLERANCES AND SNUG FIT THE ARCHITECTURE OF 3D PRINTING - 02 MASSING THE ARCHITECTURE OF 3D PRINTING - 01 TOPOGRAPHY This series is my overview about the process and my work-around. Contact us if you would like to know more on how we can help you with plotting solutions at your company.I am Stefania Dinea, an architect who mixes 3D printing, VR, parametric design and blogging daily and I will share some of my 3D printing tips & tricks with you. Plotting to DWF is certainly something to consider the next time your PDF driver gives you a hard time in Civil 3D. DWF can plot to any printer and the plots are scalable.

Those mark-ups and redlines can be reintroduced to the original design file or edited in other Autodesk products such as Revit.Clients using Design Review to view the DWF can take accurate measurements from the sheets and also create mark-ups and redlines within the document.Plotting to PDF from DWF is much quicker than plotting to PDF from Civil 3D.DWF is a highly compressed file type, and is easy to send over email.Here are some other reasons I would argue for plotting to DWF: There is no longer a need to worry about objects not plotting or fonts not being embedded.

Plotting from DWF to PDF removes all of the issues I touched upon above. DWF is an Autodesk file format which can itself be sent to clients and viewed or plotted from the Design Review viewer software which is free from Autodesk. If you plot your sheets to DWF (Design Web Format) from Civil 3D, you can plot from the DWF to PDF and you will never have any problems. I’m writing this because there is a good solution to this which works every time. I still see font embedding problems when working with clients. In short, there were a number of reasons why plotting straight from Civil 3D to PDF was a problem. Sometimes it was a matter of which PDF driver was being used.

Sometimes it was the optimization settings for the PDF which caused issues. However, this wasn’t always the fix in all circumstances from my experience. Of course, this compromises the sharp clarity of the PDF, but it at least plotted everything. For instance, occasionally lowering the resolution of the output PDF would fix the non-plotting objects issue. There was usually some weird way to fix each issue, but it was never obvious. In the past, some of these issues included problems with fonts not showing up correctly, scale issues, certain objects not plotting, and incorrect masking colors among other issues. Over the years there have been a number of issues when plotting Civil 3D sheets directly to PDF.

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