eDrawings PDF export issue: arrowheads crossing extension lines

Hi everyone,

I’m seeing an issue when exporting/printing a SOLIDWORKS drawing from eDrawings to PDF. Some dimension arrowheads appear to cross or pass through the extension lines in the PDF output.

I tested the same drawing with multiple PDF printers:

  • Microsoft Print to PDF
  • PDF24
  • CutePDF

All of them produced the same issue from eDrawings. I also tried changing drawing settings such as arrowhead style/size, extension-line gap, break gap around arrows, line thickness, and annotation settings, but the issue still remained.

However, when I export the same drawing directly from SOLIDWORKS using Save As PDF, the PDF is clean. Also, when I export the eDrawing as PNG, the arrowheads look correct.

So it seems specific to the eDrawings vector/PDF print/export path, not the drawing itself or the PDF printer.

Has anyone faced this before? Is there any setting or workaround in eDrawings to fix this and get a clean vector PDF output?

 

Thanks in advance