CAD tip # 9153:

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Arrowheads or other parts of dimensions are not printed.

Arrowheads (ticks), extension or dimension lines, or other components of dimensions and leaders are missing on printouts or in plot previews.

There may be various reasons of this problem:

The missing dimension part is placed in the DEFPOINTS layer, which is not printed (or in other "non-plotting" layer)
The missing dimension part has assigned color (style) that is mapped in the plot style table to an invisible (no-contrast) color; be careful e.g. with "almost" black colors, and with BYBLOCK colors
Your dimension uses a custom arrowhad which is domaged or improperly defined
You dimension uses annotation scales and the arrow has wrong scale
The arrow is just not filled - see FILLMODE
It could be also a problem of printer driver - try to plot first to a DWF or PDF file and then print this file on your printer or plotter

Try to explode the complaining dimension and check properties of its individual components.

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