Mystery plot issue with pipe

[Tye Austin]

I recall having this same issue with small pipe in CAD but now am seeing it occasionally in Revit as well.  has anyone had this issue and been able to figure out what causes it?  there will be a random pipe or three that will only plot the center line and not the pipe edges.  Since it's happened in CAD and in Revit, I wonder if it may be a bluebeam plot vs Autodesk issue and there is some setting I can maybe tweak.

[cadbob]

try rotating the pipe that showing the centerline, see if that works for you

[rjdonahue]

Yea it seems to happen for us on very small bore pipe like refrigerant lines <3/8"... I think it has something to do with the vector printing messing up when the parallel lines get too close? (don't quote me on that)

I've found that plotting the drawings on Raster resolves the issue. Be sure to set the raster settings to Presentation so that the drawing wont be too blurry when looking at it on a screen. As for on paper, you can't really tell the difference between Presentation Raster and Vector.

Unfortunately pdf printing to raster takes a lot longer depending on how complex the drawing is.