• Selective Display of a Filename

    Say your full filename is 60570099-SHT-P1-RD103.dgn how can you have a strings to only display as "RD103", in other words, to show only the last 5 characters. If I use "_FILE_" then it shows the full filename.... Thank you!

  • .pltcfg mappings of color, style & weight not honored

    HI, I've made printing changes. I'm getting off our legacy design scripts and going with more WYSIWYG printing (due to design script priority issues). My old printing routines used Print and the Print Organizer successfully in conjunction with a .dgnlib…

  • Pen table does not have a Note type

    Microstation indicates some text and leaders as Note. But, Pen table does not have a "Note" type. I am trying to change the color of all "Note" types to print black on a color plotter via a pen table. I have tried using dimension types and still did not…

  • AutoCAD Fields Plotting through MIcrostation

    What is the best way to apply username and plot date / time to plotted PDFs. We are currently using Bentley ICS and pen tables to control presentation of drawing created through AutoCAD 2015.

  • Unable to isolate shapes in DWG multileader elements for changing background shape color of text different than arrowhead shape within an IPlot design scipt.

    I have DWG files we are trying to plot with iCS PDF Renditions, within the DWG's are Mutlileader text labels. When these are opened by MicroStation they come in as cells name MULTILEADER. Within the cell are two shapes one for text background wipe area…

  • v8i: Text Background Mask prints black (using Print w/ Iplot Pen Table)

    I am attempting to set up a text style using background mask and I can't get it to print correctly. We have previously used a filled box around the text that is separate from the text and specified in an Iplot pen table to fill in the box with white.…

  • Design Scripts

    Anyone know where I can find a good thread fully describing these? Here is what I am looking to do, maybe I don't need a design script and there is a better way of doing it. I have existing elements on their respective levels in my profile. Right now…

  • Design Script Element Criteria

    Morning All, I'm trying to select an object with a fill_color as an RGB value.. eg: IF (fill_color == (0,0,0)) THEN Do stuff. ENDIF Oddly, when I try to use an RGB value as the criteria, the penck always returns; "PARSERR, LINE XX, Professing…

  • .pen to .tbl question

    Good day, I have just started a new job where they have always used MS V7J and used InterPlot to print their maps. They have recently upgraded to V8I and I have never worked with anything other than V8I which is why I was hired. I am not proficient…
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