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Newly created entities do not plot.

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 7620×

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See also:
Tip 11898:	Automatic schedule - number of blocks in a drawing.
Tip 11821:	How to publish PDF sheets (pages) under the plain layout name?
Tip 11604:	How to set plot transparency for all layouts in a DWG?
Tip 11469:	Why you should not use the DEFPOINTS layer to draw geometry?
Tip 11171:	Total number of layouts as a field.

Selected tip: An undocumented option of the ZOOM command.

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