Problems with creating a pdf.

[DeanSudron]

Hello,

I am a beginner (be kind) and having areal problems with getting the attached drawing to export as a pdf. When i open the drawing I have to zoom into a tiny dot until its becomes the size i need, and likewise when i go to a print preview its disappears into a tiny dot again and i cannot work out a print scale to get it to fill the paper. I have played with lots of things suggested online and am still really struggling.
When i draw, the measurements all seem to be correct.

I am running Sequoia 15.3 with Qcad 3.32.2

Thanks!
Dean

[Husky]

Hi,
I'm out of town and can't check your dwg in Qcad myself.
However, I assume lost entities are causing the confusion.
How to fix:
Load the drawing,
zoom to the actual drawing,
Select everything what is relevant with a box selection,
Invert (TI) the selection,
Delete the inverted selection,
Save the drawing under a new name,
Close and load this new drawing again,
It should already load full displayed...
Try to make a pdf export ...

Tutorial: Printing and PDF Export
https://qcad.org/en/tutorial-printing

[CVH]

Hi,

Quite a problematic file

I also see a dot or some content but that is extremely far from the origin.
Somewhere beyond (400000000, 400000000)

For some reason QCAD has difficulty zooming into the content in any way. (Over here: Win7 32bit)
Husky's method to fix this is not really usable when we can't zoom.

I first converted the file to meters (CU), effectively reducing the coordinate values by factor 1000.
Selecting all (TA) revealed additional data beyond (800000, 800000) ... In meters.
Isolated these 3 line segments on a layer called: 'XX Right High on AA adams layer'

Auto zoom (ZA) is now functional.
An export to PDF would be feasible.

There was also content detected near the origin.
- A Block Reference to Block *U423 at (-2222.222, 0)
- A Block Reference to Block BB-HCD-FS-00-M2-A-SR001 at (0, 0)
Both these Block definitions are seemingly empty.
Also isolated those.

If we select all (TA) again, excluding the isolated, we still see reference markers at (0, 0).

A reference to Block BB-HCD-ZZ-10-M2-A-AR125S37 is inserted at (0, 0) ...
... The Block content is not drawn near the Block origin, originally it was more than 400000000 units away in X and in Y.
This faulty habit is seen on regular base for drawings not created by QCAD.

Same goes for a reference to Block BB-HCD-ZZ-10-M2-A-GP005U11E.

Also discovered Z coordinates that are about but not really zero.

Anatomy_BroadwayShopping_floor plan v1 (m).dwg

Converted to meter ; Isolated entities

(678.42 KiB) Downloaded 350 times

Flatten the drawing to 2D.
At best you bring everything nearer to the drawing origin.
Block content nearer to the Block origin but then compensating the insertion point in Model_Space.
Afterwards you can convert the drawing back to mm.

# EDIT #
Something similar can be seen in another recent topic.

Regards,
CVH

[DeanSudron]

Thank you so much. All of the googling would have never got me there.
I am going to go through your post and try and get the drawing to the same conclusion so i am learning something and not just using your cleaned up file.
I really appreciate the time you put into look at that for me.

Dean

[CVH]

Hoping that you can replicate my research.

I used a variety of QCAD methods to identify some partial content.
Like:
- Box selecting with or without including the origin.
- TA to see markers of all content, markers have a fix size in pixels.
- What types and how many are in selection: Drop down box of 'Selection' in the Property Editor.
- Stepping through a type limited selection with < and >.
- Clever use of the Selection Filter.
- ...

Recording every new detail and I did several renewed attempts from scratch.

Thank you so much.

When considered as solved, please add [SOLVED] to the title of your initial post by editing it.

Regards,
CVH