Preventing the Navbar Plot

Autocad 2014 has an annoying tendency to print the navbar on every viewport. I thought they solved this problem with Service Pack 2 but it showed up again the other day.

The problem is intermittent so I know I will forget about it until it happens again. I always plot by exporting to PDF first so I just created a custom command called "Export to PDF (Navbar Off)" and stuck "navbar;off;" in it.


Hopefully it will keep me from forgetting about it, missing it and having a client staring at it wondering what the heck it is.

But the Problem Isn't Over

The major problem with the Navbar  plot issue is that when it's turned off, it can interfere with correct plotting of line weights. So you end up having to choose between line weights plotting right but navbar showing in the plot as well, or preventing navbar plotting but line weights also being messed up.

Problem Doesn't Affect All Machines

I don't know if it's a problem with .net files or what but the navbar problem doesn't hit everyone consistently. Two machines with the same software and the same patches/updates can have different results.

Please share if you find anything more on this. It's one of those persistent, unsolved problems.

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