More tries and failures:
-Printed out of Bullzip. Same issues with missing or blanked screen portions occurred.
-Tried resetting the detail layer on/off state.
-Tried deleting all the geometry that is unused or on frozen layers. Now all layers in model space are on except one layer with only hidden clipping planes.
-Using viewcapture. While the saved bitmap does display correctly, at a scale resolution of 1, the image is simply not big enough for use. I am printing blueprints at a 24"x36" size. Even getting a bigger screen isn’t an option, as I’m using a 30" display.
-Using -viewcapture and setting the scale to 2 or more. This does not work for two reasons: 1) in layout mode, -viewcapture, when scaled up, does not actually grab the full screen. Somehow it limits or crops its output bitmap to a smaller areaand forces the view down into one corner (usually the lower left). 2) -viewcapture with a scale setting other than 1 reduces the lineweights (set by layer) and so all the lines turn out really thin. This just won’t print and be legible as architectural documents.
It seems like the issue is somehow related to this zooming-disappearing-object issue:
I am thinking this because when I zoom in in a layout, at certain points some objects pop in and out of visibility. Yet not necessarily the entire object (sometimes yes, sometimes no), but it seems like the prints are following the visibility popping. Does Rhino, when it prints, turn on PrintDisplay, zoom in internally, and do a viewcapture at a certain resolution to create the print? If so, then is that acting funky and causing these print failures?
I am using Rhino 5x64 SR10 on Windows 7x64. I have one computer running an Nvidia Quadro 4000, and a second computer running an older Nvidia Quadro FX5600. The Quadro 4000 had both a recent driver, and not the latest. No change to the printing issue. The Quadro FX5600 has a very recent driver 340.66.
Please help!