XES 8830 driver

What driver should I use?

As mentioned, we are using the XES 8830 plotter and our CAD software is Inventor 7 & 8. We are having issues with parts of our drawings not plotting.

Thanks,

 

What driver should I use?

What driver are you currently using? The Xerox driver?

To clear up some of the issues we were having with Wipeout entities in
AutoCAD, we used a Windows driver for an HP DesignJet 750c and mapped
that to the Xerox's TCP/IP port.

You might also need to try upgrades to the machines firmware version
and/or try a different controller.

I'm not very familiar with ours but from what I've found is they've been
a problematic machine for a lot of people.

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Darren J. Young
CAD/CAM Systems Developer

Cold Spring Granite Company
202 South Third Avenue
Cold Spring, Minnesota 56320

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What are wipeout entities?

I am very unfamiliar in this area.

To be more specific to our problem, none of our drawings titleblock or border is plotting. Only the views are plotting.

Thanks for the reply and any other comments!

 

Sounds like it might be a layer problem rather than a printing problem --
have you made sure your border/titleblock layers are on, thawed, and not set
to "no plot"?

 

I had an issue with 3D drawings and my 8830. All of our work is done in 2D,
and anytime a wall was drawn in 3D, it wouldn't plot. Once I put everything
on the same plane, then it plotted ok. I assume that you've checked the
obvious things like reference files on defpoints, plot/no plot, etc,
etc....We use a Xerox driver that uses TCP/IP, hasn't given me too many
problems....yet

Dale

 

There are no layers within Inventor. Inventor is completely different from Autocad. All drawings are parametric 2D drawings linked to the 3D model. There are no print/plot controller options available within Inventor. Everything is controlled by the print driver.

Our IT department keeps insisting that it is the file. However, this problem only starting occuring 3 months ago when we had a new 8830 engineering plotter installed. We had an older model of the same plotter and everything worked fine. I think it must have something to do with the plotter, drivers or servers. But I don't have enough knowledge of this topic to really know. All I do know is that the problem occured with the installation of the new plotter!

 

Our titleblocks have a our company logo inserted into them as a bmp file.

I removed this bmp logo and the tilteblock and border plotted correctly.

Could the bmp be the problem?

 

Xerox has posted a new Heidi Driver for the 8830 on their web site. We have found that it corrected the entity shifting problem on plots that we were experiencing with the system drivers.