topic Re: Missing GD&T on PDF from drawing export in 3D Part & Assembly Design

Missing GD&T on PDF from drawing export

mwuethrichii — Thu, 03 May 2018 03:07:23 GMT

Hello, I am newer to CREO 4.0. When I need to export my drawing to a PDF, my GD&T symbols go missing. Would there be something I need to add in my configuration editor from options? The only way I have found to fix this is to export as a TIFF file.Thanks

Re: Missing GD&T on PDF from drawing export

MartinHanak — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 12:28:02 GMT

Hi,

please attach picture of Creo window and picture of window showing PDF contents.

Re: Missing GD&T on PDF from drawing export

mwuethrichii — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 12:32:33 GMT

Hey Steven,

Correct. Every symbol (perpendicularity, concentricity, etc.), it does not show up. See the image.

Thanks

Re: Missing GD&T on PDF from drawing export

Mritunjay — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 12:32:51 GMT

Mark,

Please try to move the GD&T symbol in separate layer and use Layer save status before exporting to pdf

Re: Missing GD&T on PDF from drawing export

mwuethrichii — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 12:34:07 GMT

This is from the drawing view.

Re: Missing GD&T on PDF from drawing export

JonathanHodgson — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 12:35:39 GMT

Steven's settings show that he's using Stroke Non TrueType Fonts - are you using that, or Stroke All Fonts?

These symbols probably do not exist in TrueType fonts, so you need to allow Creo to 'plot' them directly which is what these options do.

Re: Missing GD&T on PDF from drawing export

mwuethrichii — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 12:37:54 GMT

Hey Steven,

My settings match yours, except under fonts: I have USE TRUE TYPE FONTS.

Re: Missing GD&T on PDF from drawing export

mwuethrichii — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 12:48:34 GMT

Hello,

I created a new layer, however, I am not familiar with "layer save status" where do i find that?

Re: Missing GD&T on PDF from drawing export

MartinHanak — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 12:50:54 GMT

Hi,

set Stroke All Fonts option and export PDF.

Re: Missing GD&T on PDF from drawing export

Mritunjay — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 12:57:39 GMT

Go to layer tree, RMB and then you will see third last option is Save status. See image

Re: Missing GD&T on PDF from drawing export

TomU — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 13:05:04 GMT

All GD&T symbols in Creo 4.0 use the new Arial WGL TrueType font. They should go into the PDF just fine regardless of PDF output settings. Are you using Creo 4.0 F000 or M010?

Re: Missing GD&T on PDF from drawing export

TomU — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 13:16:37 GMT

Actually, this is not correct. The default font for Creo 4.0 is indeed the new Arial WGL font but the GD&T symbols actually use the SYMBOL font.

(This is using Creo 4.0 F000.)

Re: Missing GD&T on PDF from drawing export

TomU — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 13:20:15 GMT

Suddenly I am able to reproduce this. Trying to figure out what changed...

Re: Missing GD&T on PDF from drawing export

mender — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 13:20:39 GMT

We overlooked some aspects of how the new symbol fonts would need support in Interface, and we've had a couple fixes in this vicinity (PDF export of special/symbol font characters) in M010 and M020. Are you running in F000 or M010? If in M010, and you'd like to know whether M020 addresses it, if you could file an SPR, I could check it and either ease your mind or look into getting it fixed in M020 before it ships.

Re: Missing GD&T on PDF from drawing export

TomU — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 13:45:56 GMT

I'm still not entirely sure how I'm creating this condition, but once it happens the PDF output settings don't fix it. (Again, this is F000.)

Use TrueType Fonts

Stroke All Fonts

Stroke Non TrueType Fonts

Edit: It's supposed to look like this:

Re: Missing GD&T on PDF from drawing export

mwuethrichii — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 13:58:26 GMT

Hey Martin,

Yes, I got the symbols to show on the PDF, Thanks! I clicked Stroke All Fonts.

Thanks again

Re: Missing GD&T on PDF from drawing export

mwuethrichii — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 14:00:05 GMT

Hey Matthew,

I would not know which one I have. I will file a SPR in the future, cause I do have to manually click Stroke All Fonts to make the PDF match the Creo drawing.

Thanks,

Re: Missing GD&T on PDF from drawing export

mwuethrichii — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 16:06:39 GMT

Correct.

Re: Missing GD&T on PDF from drawing export

MartinHanak — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 05:32:51 GMT

Hi,

you can also test setting drawing option symbol_font legacy as mentioned in Re: Cannot figure out why when we plot our drawings our symbols show up below the text or at the bottom of the dimension… discussion.

Re: Missing GD&T on PDF from drawing export

aeromorrison — Wed, 14 Jun 2017 22:17:28 GMT

This is basically what I'm getting as well on Creo 4.0 M010. I can stroke all fonts, but the result looks horrible (like all line thicknesses double on the fonts). It appears Creo 4 no longer has the Stroke Non TrueType Fonts option. The only options are 'Use TrueType Fonts' and 'Stroke All Fonts'. When 'Stroke All Fonts' is selected, there is an additional option to Add Searchable Text. The option that fixed this problem in Creo 3 (Stroke Non TrueType Fonts) is missing in Creo 4 M010.

This is an unfortunate surprise when deadlines are missed because the PDF output was bad on something was fine the last time it was output to PDF.