Printing Brick Patterns

[bbbuilders]

My Brick Patterns show up great in layout, but when I print there is no pattern. Any ideas?

[Tommy Blair]

Try making a pdf first, then print that pdf.

[bbbuilders]

Tommy,

The brick pattern looks good in the pdf, but light enough that they do not print. The brick pattern in a 3D view prints very dark, its only the elevation view I am having trouble with. The roof pattern prints fine, it's only the brick that is a problem.

[Tommy Blair]

Check the settings in the layout set up and page set up. If the pdf is looking fine, then check the actual printer settings. In general, if a pdf looks fine, it should print well too unless the printer settings need to be adjusted.

[Dave Pitman]

I have had some pattern lines (light gray) look fine in the pdf, but not print well from a laser printer. I think that pdf's will be more "sensitive" to light shades than a physical printer, but it probably depends on the printer's grayscale ability.

[bbbuilders]

I found a solution, Copy the Brick material to the user library and redefine the pattern line to a darker color.

[Tommy Blair]

It's really not necessary to copy it to the user library. Just go to plan materials and edit the line color to something darker.

[marty]

Some brick patterns have the line colour set as white which looks fine in colour but dissapears in b&w. As it is not possible (yet) to send coloured elevations to layout I believe this is incorrect functionality. It took me quite a while to work out what was going on and it must be baffling to new users.