Microstation VJ Print Dialog Entity Fence

RE: Microstation VJ Print Dialog Entity Fence

Lorys — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 06:03:33 GMT

shabbir,

if your in paper space, then fence is unnecessary as it will plot and find by the sheet size automatically , if this not for paper space then you cant assume the paper size or that the drg starts at 0,0 its not autocad and most DGNs in model space are in world coordinates so I don't get how your keyin works as a generic keyin,

RE: Microstation VJ Print Dialog Entity Fence

Michael Bashore — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 11:06:40 GMT

Thank You for your answers. They were very helpful.

RE: Microstation VJ Print Dialog Entity Fence

SHABBIR AHMED — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 10:14:55 GMT

try this keyin or add in your fkey """fit view extended;pla fe;xy=0,0;dx=1.016,.711;plot""" 1.016 & 0.711 is the size of fence ie the paper size also

RE: Microstation VJ Print Dialog Entity Fence

Lorys — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 02:02:03 GMT

your control p can't have a fence set unless you have a fence already placed, that said your settings are as I said before that it will fit the view and place a fence by extents of visible elements which is what my keyin does and if you set it on an F key then you don't have to type it and it will create the fence for you and launch your printer , you can set the printdriver and set the pentable as part of the keying and even paper size.. this for me is a big time saver .. when I published the quick print script on the forum many years ago Bentley sent me a Tee shirt with Bentley Detective on it ...it was a prized possession or a very long time until I wore it out and it got a bit moth eaten...

your only other option is to use batchplt.ma and make it generic enough to find the boundary level object and use it in a script file to use the active file and set that to run form a keyin script or action string , loaded by your custom F key, then it would ignore stray objects outside your boundary shape level ..this will take a bit of trial and error to set up but you cant expect much detailed help here as your product is too old for anyone to be familiar enough to be of specific help to debug your scripts...

btw fit view extended;place fence allfiles;selview 1;PRINT;print maximize;print driver XXXX.plt

might be fit view extended;place fence EXTENDED;selview 1;PRINT;print maximize;print driver XXXX.plt

check all the print keyins available can even execute plot so you don't wait,,, and can pick paper size too.. keyins rule !

RE: Microstation VJ Print Dialog Entity Fence

Michael Bashore — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 16:32:55 GMT

Thank You for the input. I will try a few of these items. There are , more then likely items left outside the drawing border area and we work on many drawings from over the years that a many varied users have created and setup in their own ways.

RE: Microstation VJ Print Dialog Entity Fence

Lorys — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 23:56:54 GMT

well its been too many years for me to remember J, but in v8i , nothing to do with the driver its a config file setting...

Specifically its a variable in the workspace config, but you cant have any stray elements outside your boundary shape

but in J you could still look under printing> automatically fit to see if there is something similar

MS_PLT_AUTO_FIT_VIEW=1

the only other alternative is to write a script that will force fit view then force a fence from the fit view and look for boundary or elements then execute the plot command with all the settings you need, ie paper size print driver etc, then print ( used to use this in XM ) via a personalised F key.. this is what I have used before but again not sure will work exactly in Version J

fit view extended;place fence allfiles;selview 1;PRINT;print maximize;print driver XXXX.plt

but there cannot be any elements outside the print boundary or it will fit to all elements to fit the view

to find a lot of the print keyins just control p and then go to keying window and type mdl load

enter and will display the loaded mdls one is the plot and you then pick next to that show keyins or keyins and you can then see all the different plot keyins including paper size maximise color etc

Hope this helps... but you need access to the config or to be able to edit your fkeys...