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Entities added to a drawing with Xrefs are not plotted on the paper.

Make sure your entities are not placed in a nonplottable layer (DEFPOINTS or a non-plot attribute). If your drawing is complicated (lots of vectors - e.g. in hatching or text), your plotter memory may be exhausted (verify the plot preview). Also make sure your entities are not assigned (via pens or plot styles) to a near-white (=invisible) color.

This problem may be caused also by a corrupted drawing - e.g. a DWG file coming from a non-Autodesk CAD application.

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3.1.2002    9223×  
applies to: AutoCAD ·

See also:
Tip 14608:How can the same DWG show dimensions for the Germans and French with a decimal comma, and for the British and Americans with a point?
Tip 14505:How to set the "Display Plot Styles" option for all layouts at once?
Tip 14481:How to bulk publish a folder of DWG/DXF files to PDF?
Tip 14033:Clipping blocks, images, curves, xrefs - everything, into any shape
Tip 13977:How to publish a PDF to the same folder as a DWG drawing in AutoCAD?


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