Change the “Number of Lines” setting from “ 20” to “ 0” (zero).

Scroll down in the palette to the “Edge Settings” section, Change the property called “Show” from “ Facet Edges” to “ Isolines“.

In this example, I changed the “ Hidden” Visual Style.

Select the Visual Style that you wish to change in the upper section of the palette.

Use the command VISUALSTYLES in the command line to open the Visual Styles palette. Change “ Shade Plot” from “ As Displayed” to “Hidden”Ĭhange the Visual Style to not display the “Isolines”.Then change the “Shade Plot” setting of the viewport by selecting the edge of the viewport from paper space and opening the “ Properties” palette.This trips me up a lot and I confuse them for each other…įor the purposes of this blog post, I will keep it simple and keep the visual style of the Viewport set to “2D Wireframe” (shown below) Note that there is a difference of a “Visual Style” and “Shade Plot” setting. The settings of the visual styles for a viewport can be confusing.

There are some helpful AutoCAD variables and an adjustment to your preferred “Visual style(s)” that can help make printing 3D solids look correct in your print.įirst – The issue that we encountered was that intersecting solids didn’t have a clear intersection in the print and curved 3D objects were displaying lines where a “tessellation” of the curves would be. This post isn’t a fix-all solution but it has helped printing/plotting issues that I’ve recently encountered.

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