I am having a problem printing a plan set. I was, at first, using batch plot because I was more comfortable with it. I found that when I printed a set of sheets, some line styles were different than those shown when you opened a file. I fiddled around with the settings to no avail until I thought that it is defaulted on printing in read-only.
I then proceeded to open the file in read-only and found that when opened in read-only instead of read-write, my line styles were off. So without touching anything other than the open file button, I could switch between read-only and read-write and my line styles would look different. I am not sure what would cause this to happen, so I thought I would try print organizer since I needed to learn it anyways.
After reading through a couple things, I set up my project and printed. This yielded the same problem I had before.
So if anyone has solved this problem before and could lead me down the right path, I would be grateful.
Do you have any command line arguments set on your Microstation desktop shortcut? On the icon do a right click and properties and select the shortcut tab. On the target line go to the very end (ustation.exe) and see if you have any command line arguments listed. If so we need you to set the workspace variable MS_PLT_ENGINE_CMDLINE_ARGS
and set this what you may have on the target line (just copy and paste as it is from the target line). Print Organizer spins up Microstation in the background and you need to have it started correctly to find custom line styles etc. If this doesn't help when adding the files to print Organizer click manually specified options and on the advanced tab set you workspace values.
Below are a couple of links to educate yourself with.
communities.bentley.com/.../print-organizer-vs-batch-print.aspx
communities.bentley.com/.../tutorial_3a00_-automating-printing-through-print-styles.aspx
This link is also helpful:
communities.bentley.com/.../microstation-v8i-print-organizer-getting-started-guide.aspx
Create the print styles in a dgnlib file (i.e. print styles.dgnlib)
Set the location via the MS_DGNLIBLIST workspace variable
Answer Verified By: William J Robinson
Todd: The check box is not checked and was grayed out to where you could not click it, I'm guessing because MS_PRINTORGANIZER_OPEN_DGN_READWRITE was already set to 1.
Mark: The MS_PLT_ENGINE_CMDLINE_ARGS line had all the extensions other than opening GEOPAK, so we added that...and it worked! Not sure why loading geopak mattered, but my prints are coming out with the right line styles so far.
Thank you both for your help!