Troubles with Vector Output Print

[mutarq]

Hi!.

Well. I’ve been trying to make all documentation inside rhino and using visualArq.. it is tricky.. I still hope it can be done. For this I rely a lot on the “plan views”.. and “section views”

A big problem I found today is that the Dashed lines inside the plan view are printed incorrectly in using wireframe viewstyle.(this problem is solve is I explode the plan view.. so the problem is the planview itself)

BUT.. if I switch to HIDDEN viewstyle, the Dashed lines print ok.. but all other regular blocks inside rhino are completely destroyed in the print.

So my guess is about how Visualarq interprets the units (failing to render a dashed line as many small segments.. or converting a circle into a square on the other case). but it is unerving that the “print preview” is displaying something correclty, but print that is not possible.

I’ll appreciate your help in solving this issue. allowing to print either in wireframe or in hidden viewstyle.. Thank you!.

(system information at the end of this message)

TEST_DRAWINGS_WIREFRAME.pdf (45.1 KB)

TEST_DRAWINGS_HIDDEN.pdf (28.5 KB)

TEST_DRAWING.3dm (5.6 MB)

Rhino 8 SR28 2026-1-21 (Rhino 8, 8.28.26021.13001, Git hash:master @ 13ca4c596ccf597975b83e41bd87ab486f6c3f4a)
License type: Educational, build 2026-01-21
License details: Cloud Zoo

Windows 11 (10.0.26100 SR0.0) or greater (Physical RAM: 31GB)
.NET 8.0.14

Computer platform: LAPTOP - Plugged in [100% battery remaining]

Hybrid graphics configuration.
Primary display: AMD Radeon™ 780M (AMD) Memory: 1GB, Driver date: 6-27-2023 (M-D-Y).

Integrated accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)

• Windows Main Display is laptop’s integrated screen or built-in port
  Primary OpenGL: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU (NVidia) Memory: 8GB, Driver date: 8-7-2025 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 580.97

Integrated accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)

• Video pass-through to primary display device

OpenGL Settings
Safe mode: Off
Use accelerated hardware modes: On
GPU Tessellation is: On
Redraw scene when viewports are exposed: On
Graphics level being used: OpenGL 4.6 (primary GPU’s maximum)

Anti-alias mode: 4x
Mip Map Filtering: Linear
Anisotropic Filtering Mode: High

Vendor Name: NVIDIA Corporation
Render version: 4.6
Shading Language: 4.60 NVIDIA
Driver Date: 8-7-2025
Driver Version: 32.0.15.8097
Maximum Texture size: 32768 x 32768
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 32768 x 32768
Total Video Memory: 8188 MB

Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino
C:\Users\mutar\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\8.0\Plug-ins\D5LiveSync (e0d5e210-02f6-4ee9-a2b0-1675e225d958)\D5Conv.rhp “D5 Live Sync for Rhino”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Tibidabo\Lands.rhp “Lands Design”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Tibidabo\VisualARQ.rhp “VisualARQ”
C:\Program Files\Common Files\McNeel\Rhinoceros\8.0\Plug-ins\Bella (813de3fb-18eb-405f-bfcd-b0b4d3da91fb)\25.3.0.0\bella_rhino.rhp “Bella” 25.3.0.0
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Tibidabo\Tibidabo.rhp “Tibidabo”

Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” 8.28.26021.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\rdk.rhp “Renderer Development Kit”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoBonusTools.rhp “Rhino Bonus Tools”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\AnimationTools.rhp “AnimationTools”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoRenderCycles.rhp “Rhino Render” 8.28.26021.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoRender.rhp “Legacy Rhino Render”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\rdk_etoui.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” 8.28.26021.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\NamedSnapshots.rhp “Snapshots”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\MeshCommands.rhp “MeshCommands” 8.28.26021.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\IronPython\RhinoDLR_Python.rhp “IronPython” 8.28.26021.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 8.28.26021.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Grasshopper\GrasshopperPlugin.rhp “Grasshopper” 8.28.26021.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\export_PDF.rhp “PDF Export” 8.28.26021.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars” 8.28.26021.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\3dxrhino.rhp “3Dconnexion 3D Mouse”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Displacement.rhp “Displacement”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\SectionTools.rhp “SectionTools”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\NamedPositions.rhp “Named Position”

[fsalla (Francesc Salla)]

Hi @mutarq, I’ve tried to print that page (detail in Hidden display) using Rhino PDF printer with 1200 dots/inch ressolution, and apparently everything (door dashed lines and block lines) prints as expected. Attach the result.
PLANTA BAJA.pdf (40.2 KB)

Which PDF printer are you using? and which is the output resolution?

[mutarq]

Hi @fsalla!.. THank you for looking at this.

Unfortunately the file that you shared shows a lot of missed lines and changed geometry in the blocks that I mentioned.. I’m attaching a screenshot of your print to compare with the rhino file (missing lines in the bed.. and missing lines circles changed into diamonds).

AS you can see, that does not happens in wireframe viewstyles (actually at this moment wireframe seems more consistent.. but the dashed lines in vaPlanViews are not printed correctly).. I tried your trick of changin the print resolution too in wireframe. but that does not improve.

I’m attaching here images of prinitng in Hidden.

And just as a final note. I use RhinoPDF.. and I find kind of curious that printing in vector output in Hidden viewstyle is dependant of the pixel resolution for raster . because it actually improved a little when I changed from my usual 300 ppi to your suggestion in 1200 ppi.. (or even slightly better into 3600 ppi) .. but that will come at a (filesize) cost.. when printing pages that have both raster and vector information.

Thank you again for your work improving va.. hope there is a solution for printing correctly the vaPlanview in wireframe .. or this regular blocks in hidden (by the way the “washing machine” is not a block and you can see that it prints correctly)

[fsalla (Francesc Salla)]

Hi @mutarq you are right. I didn’t notice those errors before. I’ve seen that printing in Wireframe when VisualARQ is disabled works better in this case. We will investigate why this happens and fix these errors.