[V8i] Attachment forces Rasterized and greys it out

Question

I'm running Microstation V8i corresponding to Power Geopak 08.11.09.878. I'm plotting to a PDF from a DGN that has many attachments--some displayed, some not. When I attempt to plot with all the attachments I want to display, the rasterized option is locked in and greyed out. 
 I have noticed this issue before, and because I don't know better, I had associated it with 3d models. I have two 3d attachments in this situation: attachments A and B. In this particular case, I need to detach only attachment A in order to correct this rasterized option lock. (It isn't enough to just turn off display on that attachment.) Attachment B can remain attached and displayed, and I can still disable Rasterized assuming attachment A is detached. 
 I've determined that it has nothing to do with presentation settings (i.e. Wireframe, Illustration, etc.). It isn't Plot as 3D (PDF). 
 Attachment A has a point cloud in it. Attachment B has linear, mesh, and I believe volume features. 
 Any advice on this? Where do I look for the correction?

Andrew Edge · Accepted Answer

Anything but the most trivial point cloud would likely crash the program were its generated data converted to vector elements and sent through the non-rasterized printing pipeline. So it's not an issue of printing satisfactorily, but printing at all. MicroStation allows the Rasterized checkbox to be toggled off in many situations where it's questionable the desired output will be achieved, but avoiding a near-certain hard crash is a different matter. 
 Investigating, I see that MicroStation does not take into account the point cloud level's "do not plot" flag when determining whether Rasterized should be enforced. It should, and that's essentially the same functionality as a non-view-dependent point cloud print attribute. That's something we'll fix in the next CONNECT Edition update.

Andrew Edge · Answer

It's the point cloud. Point clouds can only be printed in rasterized mode. 
 There was an issue in the past where point clouds in references whose display were turned off would still trigger the rasterized requirement, but that's been corrected in CONNECT Edition.

Derek Schmidt · Answer

I do see that if I turn off display of all point clouds in view 1, I can print from view 1 without rasterized locked in. This helps considerably. Thanks. Though until I have a good set of principles lined up, I will probably find it at least a little bit painful to have to turn off point clouds on a per-view basis, since they're usually in a different file than the one I have open. 
 I can understand that a whole mass of single-vertex linestrings may not print satisfactorily, but I also feel like that doesn't really justify forcing an option that I may not want to be active. I'd rather determine that for myself. And further, perhaps it could be a view attributes and print attributes option whether or not to view or print point clouds.

[V8i] Attachment forces Rasterized and greys it out

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