Christopher Johnson

Use the -debug switch on the end of the MicroStation command line In Debug mode you will see a command window open with a lot of lines of text scroll by very quickly. When it is completed the last line will be the location of the msdebug.txt file…

Our company has the same setting and we use Bulk Attribute update utility. You could spend a good deal of time writing something that does the same thing in a customized way. However, we did not see the need.

Hi Chris, Unknown said: The biggest issue I think, is that the text that I am replacing is center center justified, and based on the location of the tag, above a certain length it would go off the edge of the page(say 70 characters), and above an even…

I suppose you have tried smaller font to put the full long path? Seems a bit strange that you have to do this as it wont mean anything when the client gets the files in cad because it will change when they store them elsewhere, but I have a sneaky low…

Hi Christopher, I think there is no way how to obtain old 8.3 DOS style path of active file in MicroStation. Even though your request makes sense, I guess nobody takes care about so old FAT style today. It's possible to create and use own Named…

Chris, Try this web link communities.bentley.com/.../11274.text-substitution-enhancements-to-microstation-v8-pen-tables-cs

Correction, it is possible in MicroStation V8i using a named expression. Say you define a named expression in one of your DGNLIBs called "TruncatedPrintDefSourceFile". In the pen table, the replacement string would be "<expr?name=TruncatedPrintDefSourceFile…