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For some reason, I can not get knockouts to print. They appear on screen, but not in printed format.

I have played around with layer locations, plot first, last, in order...

Moved the hatch layers to front, back, up the list, down the list - all to no avail...

Also, the knockouts don't even show up in xrefs...

What is happening? I need help quickly.

Thanks.

If you have "Pen Sort" turned on in the Print menu, try de-selecting it and select instead "WYSIWYG". It may or may not help.

I have tried that also - no luck.

dcadwin.ini setting?
Print KnockOuts=DEFAULT
; Set any of the above to TRUE to force them to print, even if the attribute setting in the Utility/Display menu is turned off. If set to DEFAULT or missing, the drawing's display toggles T, H, L, U, D, F, B, and K in SWOTHLUDFBK will be used to determine whether or not the attribute is included in the printed output.

I tried that also - still doesn't plot correctly. Now I have messed up some of the knockouts and they don't even display correctly now.

Are the set to a non printing color, line weight of zero?
Strange, might need to send in to the experts.

So the cutout polygon needs to be a non-printing color and line weight of 0?

No, I was asking if yours were set to that. If either of those settings where current, it might explain them not printing.

My setting weren't set to that...

This is really strange, to say the least. I resorted to the old ways - voids and erasing lines.

Here are some screen shots - strange:

Lots of settings can cause issues with knockouts, need a bit more info to hunt it down. What is the color/pen number of the items you are trying to knockout and what is the color/pen number of the knockout entity itself? Also What are your Bitmap and Fills Set to in the Pen Table, and is Map Fill colors to Pen colors checked? Are both doors the same colors? Are the knockouts?

Wow - I never knew this could be so complicated...

One thing that may create the problem with the louvered door is that the louvers are associated hatching, which is inside the knockout polyline. Does that create probs?

It will take me a while to get all of the info you asked for - the drawing has many colors, pens, etc.

Try the pull down View menu. Go to Knockouts. Turn off Compatibility mode. That is a setting for exporting to AutoCAD.
Good Luck