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I have a surface pattern on a roof paver tile so that I see the 18"x18" tiles.  However, I want to see through the pavers so I can highlight the sloping roof below.  I added a filter that makes my pavers halftone and transparent and then another filter to bold and hidden line my sloping roof.  It looks exacetly the way on I want on my screen.

However, when I print it, some of the surface patterns disapear randomly.  I should mention that I have many different paver floors because of many different colors and rotations of the tiles.  98% of them show correctly on the print, but it should print 100% of them.

Is there something I should check?

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Are you printing raster because of shading?  If so, that may account for your problem.  Halftones seem to be a problem on lines other than normal - we see differences on curves vs normal lines.  The problem is because of the pixels...

Did you try printing to a pdf first then printing that?

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We always print with vector.  Which is where I'm experiencing the problem.  If I print it in raster I don't have the problem, but I'll only print that one sheet in raster.  I tried print on a laser printer, full size plotter and PDF and all had the same result when print as vector.

Thanks for your input.

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I'm having the same problem with my rcp drawing. The surface hatch is displaying on all ceilings but two. All the properties are the same. Any clues? Is this just a glitch. Please see attached file.

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99.999% sure it is a user issue. Possibilities - I know you think the properties are the same but we have seen far too many of these:

1. Is the ceiling really there (the tag is to this ceiling - not adjacent)
2. Ceilng is out of view.
3. Over-ride graphics in view by element
4. Ceiling is not the same....
5.  You are playing around with phases.

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Thanks for the response but:

1. Is the ceiling really there (the tag is to this ceiling - not adjacent)-Yes ceiling is there
2. Ceilng is out of view.- no ceiling is not out of view
3. Over-ride graphics in view by element- no graphics over-ride
4. Ceiling is not the same....- It is the same
5.  You are playing around with phases.-We are not using phases in this project.

Anyother ideas?

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Drafting- they pattern is connected to the ceiling, in the ceiling properties. Therefore it doesn't make sense why all the other plank ceilings show up except these two. I ended up having to add a filled region to make it show up. Still love input on what might be wrong.

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Here is a test for you - create a new ceiling plan.  Don't copy the existing one.  Justr uncheck the do not duplicate box and create the plan from the Create / Plan Views / NEW RCP and set the scale to a large scale.

Then if the ceiling does't come in, match ceiling properties good to bad or vice versa and see what happens.

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