Hatch printing issues

peabodydustin · April 19, 2020, 1:46pm

Hello All,

I’m having an issue in Rhino 6 for Mac where hatches from layouts that aren’t simple rectangles are printing with some strange lines from different points on the hatch. The lines aren’t rendered in the layout view, only in the print dialog box and when the file is saved as pdf/opened in preview. Has anyone experienced something similar?

caseymjones · April 22, 2020, 3:35pm

Hi,

Yes, I’m experiencing the same issue. At times the thin lines are so dense it affects how the hatch prints on paper.

peabodydustin · April 23, 2020, 2:59pm

thanks for the response. Have you found a way to fix it? are you also workin on a mac?

thanks

stevebaer · April 23, 2020, 3:08pm

Can you post the 3dm file used to generate the image you posted above? I would need to see that to try and repeat the problem you are seeing.

peabodydustin · April 24, 2020, 3:58pm

Hi @stevebaer

Here is another file that is behaving the same way for me.

Hatchfail.pdf (6.0 KB) HatchTest.3dm (2.8 MB)

stevebaer · April 24, 2020, 4:40pm

I don’t see any objects in that 3dm file

wim · April 24, 2020, 4:45pm

They are on the layout, Steve.
That file is a Rhino 6 file, @peabodydustin. You need to export from Rhino 7 to get this to work.
HatchTest-rh7.pdf (1.8 KB)
-wim

stevebaer · April 24, 2020, 4:48pm

Ah, missed that. I believe File->Export for this will also work in Rhino 6.

The trick is to use File->Export instead of Print.

peabodydustin · April 24, 2020, 6:22pm

Great, thanks Wim and Steve. that seemed to solve the problem.

TY

caseymjones · April 24, 2020, 9:10pm

Hi Steve,

The export method solves the hatch issue however it only exports 1 sheet - even if ‘All Layouts’ is selected under ‘View and Output Scale’. Im running Version 6 (6.25.20112.13152, 2020-04-21)

Thanks!

wim · April 26, 2020, 7:48pm

Hi -

That issue is on our list as RH-58100.
Thanks for reporting!
-wim

caseymjones · April 27, 2020, 4:44pm

Hi Wim,

Thank you! Appreciate the quick reply.

caseymjones · November 29, 2020, 6:20pm

Hi @wim ,

I’m working in Rhino 7 and can’t seem to export more tha

n one page at a time using either print or export. Can you please look into this? I’ve attached a screenshot of the pop-up windows for both showing how the print dialog doesn’t recognize multiple pages and the export doesn’t have a dialogue to add multiple pages to the export.

Thank you.

pascal · December 4, 2020, 4:35pm

4 posts were split to a new topic: Printing hatch to pdf is ugly

caseymjones · December 4, 2020, 4:27pm

I have multi page presentations that I have to export one page at a time because of the issues in my post above. Can anyone help with this?

Running Big Sur might be part of the issue, but to have just bought Rhino 7 and not be able to print or export more than one page is really disappointing.

Thanks in advance.

mary · December 4, 2020, 5:11pm

Hi Oosh,
This printing issue was fixed in Rhino 7 sr1. It is working on my Rhino 7.

You need to download the Rhino 7 sr1 Release Candidate and install.
You will need to use the Print command and pick All or your range of files.
Then PDF view or save from the menu in the lower left fo the Print dialog.

Rhino 7 sr1 will likely be released as a public build next week.

Let us know if this helps.

Sincerely,
Mary Ann Fugier
McNeel Technical Support and Training
Seattle, WA