Straition lines printing in filled areas

I have not discovered the definitive answer, so I am bumping up the queue, to keep the thread fresh.

On 28/05/2015 9:34 a.m., Tee Dunn wrote:

I have not discovered the definitive answer, so I am bumping up the

queue, to keep the thread fresh.

 

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In the print dialog, when you select 'black', you should also select

'solid'. If you fail to do that and your layer setup does not have a

solid fillstyle then you can get the light and dark stripes.

HTH

Warren

On 28.05.2015 12:05, warrenbrayshaw wrote:

On 28/05/2015 9:34 a.m., Tee Dunn wrote:

I have not discovered the definitive answer, so I am bumping up the

queue, to keep the thread fresh.

 

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In the print dialog, when you select 'black', you should also select

'solid'. If you fail to do that and your layer setup does not have a

solid fillstyle then you can get the light and dark stripes.

I suppose this only prints non solid fillstyle lines as solid? This is

not about that.

In the print dialog, when you select 'black', you should also select

'solid'. If you fail to do that and your layer setup does not have a

solid fillstyle then you can get the light and dark stripes.

HTH

Warren

I have tried that, too. It did not fix the problem for me.

Did you have this problem, yourself, and, then, learned that using the "solid" function was the cure. Or, do you just know that the "solid" function exists? I mean that as a genuine question... I don't mean to be brash... It just would help me to know where you are coming from.

I use solid fills for all planes. Eagle translates them as lines. Whether the solid function is on, or not, Eagle still renders solids as lines.

You have good insights and I appreciate your help.

In the print dialog, when you select 'black', you should also select

'solid'. If you fail to do that and your layer setup does not have a

solid fillstyle then you can get the light and dark stripes.

HTH

Warren

I have tried that, too. It did not fix the problem for me.

Did you have this problem, yourself, and, then, learned that using the "solid" function was the cure. Or, do you just know that the "solid" function exists? I mean that as a genuine question... I don't mean to be brash... It just would help me to know where you are coming from.

I use solid fills for all planes. Eagle translates them as lines. Whether the solid function is on, or not, Eagle still renders solids as lines.

You have good insights and I appreciate your help.

On 29.05.2015 02:53, Tee Dunn wrote:

Did you have this problem, yourself, and, then, learned that using the

"solid" function was the cure. Or, do you just know that the "solid"

function exists? I mean that as a genuine question... I don't mean to be

brash... It just would help me to know where you are coming from.

I explained earlier a bit where I bumped into a similar issue.

To elaborate a bit, years ago, I was generating files for a high density

board, and the board house came back to me with a similar issue as you

describe. They didnt use pdf, but gerbers. Apparently their tool

(unknown) converted wire fills to polygon fills, and it was not able to

see this as a fill because of these lines.

Changing the gerber format from GERBER_RS274X to GERBER_RS274X_25 fixed

that problem back then, but I ended up writing my own gerber export ulp

because they wanted all pads flashed, but that is a different story.

On 29/05/2015 12:53 p.m., Tee Dunn wrote:

In the print dialog, when you select 'black', you should also select

'solid'. If you fail to do that and your layer setup does not have a

solid fillstyle then you can get the light and dark stripes.

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HTH

Warren

 

I have tried that, too. It did not fix the problem for me.

 

Did you have this problem, yourself, and, then, learned that using the

"solid" function was the cure. Or, do you just know that the "solid"

function exists? I mean that as a genuine question... I don't mean to be

brash... It just would help me to know where you are coming from.

 

I use solid fills for all planes. Eagle translates them as lines.

Whether the solid function is on, or not, Eagle still renders solids as

lines.

 

You have good insights and I appreciate your help.

 

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Time for some clarity

v7.2.2

When I display your pdf I do not see lines

When I print your pdf I do not see lines.

When I open your board and print to pdf I do not get lines when I

display the pdf or when I print it.

So you have an issue I do not have, so something in your environment is

creating the issue for you.

Remember when you send a board file to someone, your layer settings do

not go with it. I see the board with my palette settings.

I then experimented to see what I had to do to get the type of lines you

report.The only way was to change the fill of a layer colour and print

without the Solid checkbox checked.

You say your fill lines are not overlapping fully. Please show us how it

looks on your computer with a screen shot of the polygon construction

key the following into the command line

SET FILL_LAYER 16 0; rats;

You should be able to inspect for no overlap which I don't think you

will see. If you do, take a screen shot of the failing area and post it

back here in the thread.

Then try

SET FILL_LAYER 16 2; rats;

Print to pdf, without 'solid' selected. I get striping but only on some

of the magnifications but importantly does happen at 100%

key the following to return it to solid fill for layer 16

SET FILL_LAYER 16 1; rats;

All the best

Warren