We have recently set up a WMS server that brings in aerial image that we include as a background raster in some of our sheet views for MicroStation V8i. While drafting in model view, I am able to get the Microstation to request raster tiles from the WMS server at 1024x1024 by specifying that width and height in the WMS url. However when we print a sheet view to a PDF (using Bentley's PDF driver), Microstation appears to request tiles from the WMS server at 256x256. I would like to increase the size of the tiles requested by Microstation from the WMS server to 1024x1024 when we are printing PDFs. Is there a configuration setting that can be changed to set the size of tiles that Microstation requests from the WMS server while printing?
I am currently running Microstation V8i (SELECTseries 2) - Version 08.11.07.443 on Windows 7 Pro SP1
We have other people in the office that are currently trying Microstation V8i (SELECTseries 3) - Version 08.11.09.397 if that version has different settings for WMS servers.
Thanks,
~Kevin
Hi Kevin,
The current internal representation of a WMS is a tiled raster, each tile having a fixed size of 256 per 256 pixels.
That being said when you do display a WMS in a MicroStation view there is a mecanism which tries to fetch multiple tiles in a single WMS request, probably up to the maximum bitmap size supported by the server.
Unfortunately this "multiple tiles in a single WMS request" mechanism is not available when printing in non-rasterized mode.
So the only solution at this moment would be for you to print in rasterized mode. Or print only the WMS in rasterized mode, switch the WMS for the PDF and print in non-rasterized mode.
Mathieu