Vent: lost 3 hours to a pdf export setting nobody mentions

I was sure our full set of details was drawing clean until the contractor called about missing hidden lines, turns out my export default was dropping them since an update last month. Has anyone else had a software update silently flip their print settings and cost them a revisions cycle?

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sam_wood606d ago

Something similar bit us on the layer settings side. Went through a whole sheet set and every viewport came out with the wrong lineweights after a point release. The part that really gets me is these updates never show up as a prompt or a changelog you'd actually read. They just push it, the default flips, and you find out weeks later when a sub calls you confused. I've started keeping a copy of my plot settings and templates in a versioned folder so I can diff them after any update. Takes five minutes and it has saved me more than one revision cycle. The real fix would be the software asking before it changes my defaults, but I doubt that's coming.

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