I've been using Microstation for about 4 years now. Printing has always seemed to take many steps. Just so I'm not doing it the long way I want to be sure I'm printing correctly/efficiently. I set my fence, go to configuration, open my *.ini file and set print area to fence. I then go to file>print and print my drawing. Is there a way to make this *.ini file come up as a default? Is there a quicker way to do this?
Mawnster said: I set my fence, go to configuration, open my *.ini file and set print area to fence. I then go to file>print and print my drawing. Is there a way to make this *.ini file come up as a default? Is there a quicker way to do this?
I set my fence, go to configuration, open my *.ini file and set print area to fence. I then go to file>print and print my drawing. Is there a way to make this *.ini file come up as a default? Is there a quicker way to do this?
The INI file is a text file that contains all the information needed to set up the plots. Information such as what view attributes are on/off, what levels are displayed, where the fence is and it's coordinates, and more. (Go ahead and locate of yours and open it in any text editor to review its contents.)
So, for a new drawing, set it up for plotting and place the fence. Then choose File > Print and make any adjustments you need in the print dialog. This would be things like the paper size, scale and so forth. Once everything is set, choose Configuration > Save As and save your INI file. The next time you want to print this drawing, simply do a CTRL+P to get to the print dialog, open the INI file and kick of the print. You could even simplify this further by just using a couple of keyins. For example, if your active file is ABC.dgn, and you already have the INI for it, just keyin:
print openprintsetup ABC.ini print execute
Note that the the variable to specify the search path for the print configuration files is MS_PLOTINI
Hope that helps.