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Bentley Driver trying to output a DGN instead of a PDF.

Alex Pounds
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I'm using Microstation V8i ss3 and when printing to pdf with the Bentley Driver it attempts to create a dgn instead. It will result in an error and fail to output if the file name is not changed (file already exists). Most of the time the print output is a pdf as expected. It creates only creates dgn file occasionally. If the file name is unique and it creates a dgn and I delete that dgn, then often the next try will result in a pdf. Otherwise I have to rename the output file.


Any help would be appreciated.

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    I have modified the Filename, everything after" _DGNFILE))" I deleted. Changing this back to default seems to have fixed the problem however the pdf outputs now all have "Default 000" in their file name. This is the same as me changing the file names manually where the issue is with a pdf and dgn having the same name in the same folder. I tried this on another unconfigured workstation (default v8i) and got the same results. Deleting everything after _DGNFILE)) occasionally results in a dgn instead of a pdf. If i have to I'll leave the filename as ))-<PDF> and that would band-aid the problem.

    If i try to open the dgn output it will launch MS but won't open the file (error: unrecognized). I changed "opens with" to Adobe and it opened as a pdf normally would.

    This seems to happen at random maybe 1 out of 10 dgn's but, when it happens to a file it always happens to that file.

    Haven't tried deleting the .upf, tried a different workstation.
  • 0 Offline in reply to Alex Pounds
    You can change the Filename to $(MS_PLTFILES)$(basename(_DGNFILE)) if you want the PDF file to be named with the name of the design model you have open.

  • 0 Offline in reply to Van Kendall
    That's how I had it and what seems to be causing problems.

    I changed it to:
    $(MS_PLTFILES)$(basename(_DGNFILE))-<PDF> as a temporary fix but now I'm stuck with "filename-PDF.pdf" as the file name.

    It's definitely outputting a pdf file; I can open the file with Adobe. The "open with" is wrong (set to MS V8i) and in the save dialog it thinks the file is a dgn and tries to overwrite the dgn. It actually says "filename.dgn already exists. Do you want to overwrite?"
  • 0 Offline in reply to Alex Pounds
    I would like for you to try a test. Check your Folder Options in your Windows File Explorer and if you have "hide extensions for know file types" checked uncheck it and see if you can reproduce the issue.

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