• PEN Table exception to make fill/backgrounds white?

    Our agency has PEN tables that allow utilities to appear in color and certain grays to plot and be transparent. There is a section in the PEN table wording that encompasses all other levels and sets them to black. Unfortunately, this also applies to the…
  • OpenRoads (+ProjectWise) Text Substitution

    Hi, I am using OpenRoads Designer CONNECT (2020 Release 3) alongside with ProjectWise. I am trying to automatically populate multiple fields from a border reference file. This border is referenced into each sheet, where the fields will have different…
  • Test for scale in pentable

    Hi Everyone, We have a workflow for legacy projects that goes like this... Open file, place fence on sheet boundary 'ticks', open Print Dialog (ctrl+p), choose pltcfg, enter scale into Print Dialog, choose pen table (one of 3 that change the size…
  • Pen tables don't work with 3d sections

    I have saved 3d section views and when creating a pdf the saved views do not follow pen tables views. I get a wsywig output On top of this my saved views do not have the colors of the saved section view. If I open the saved view in the model file…
  • Dscript or Pen text based file and specifying colors from a dgnlib colorbook.

    I'm trying to create a text based dscript or pen table that allows me to specify colors that come from a dgnlib color book. I would even use the dialog based tbl file but it doesn't seem to be as flexible. Thank you for any help. Also I don't mind…
  • Pen Table Text Substitution Macros Not Working in Print Organizer or Batch Plot

    I have a basic macro that does text substitution through the Pen Table. This text substitution at printing is not possible any other way (i.e. standard text substitutions, name expressions). The Pen Table and Macro work perfectly when printing from drawing…
  • RE: MICROSTATION-PLOT STAMP CONFIGURE

    Check these links by Andrew Edge... Print Text Substitution Tutorial: Including the Date in Print Output File Names Display active files last saved date and time in print border Regards, Leonard Jones.
  • Dimension note will not resymbolize to black in PDF

    Using a pen table in MSta to change all active output to black in a PDF. No specific criteria defined, just "OUT_COLOR = 0x0". This works well, always has, but a dimension "Note" will not resymbolize. The only color in the entire pdf! Print preview also…
  • Print Organizer and ProjectWise Managed Workspaces

    We are having an issue where Print Organizer is not reading the PW managed workspaces, so when we print our files, our custom linestyles, fonts, named expressions, text substitutions, etc, etc, are not being processed since that information does not reside…
  • Open and Edit .TBL file

    Hi folks, A simple thing I just can't a radar lock on.... editing a 'TBL' file. Someone might kindly got a line on that for me please? Much appreciated! Cheers
  • Convert/export tbl file to ctb?

    I have an INTERGRAPH *.tbl file. Does anybody know if there is a way to convert this into a ctb or something similar that I can then use in AutoCAD? I am preparing drawings in Civil3D, but the files must be archived as MicroStation dgn. I have mapped…
  • pen table trick?

    is it possible to turn on fill based on a cell name? For example: if I have a cell named "Fill Me", can I use the pen table to fill the cell at print time? We have a client who requires this. TIA Mike
  • Pinting dynamic view + pdf

    Hi all I'm going to use V8I and ARCHITECTURE. We want to use DV. WE ARE COMING FROM 2004+TRIFORMA. i wanted to know about your workflow and how you print sheet with dv referenced. i know that rasterised must be click. it make 15min to send a sheet…
  • Text Substitution for number of sheets within sub folder in Print Organizer

    I'm trying to determine a way to with the standard pen table substitutions or named expressions to print "Sheet X of Y" for various disciplines within one print set file. There is a named expression variable "PrintSet.PrintDefCount" that counts the total…
  • Pen Tables - Multiple level regular expressions

    I'm trying to create a pen table with multiple level regular expressions in the Element Search Criteria for an individual section. Putting in a single expression works just fine, but when I add a second the entire level expression is ignored. For example…
  • Print Scale display using named expressions

    Pen table text substitution has been used to display the print scale for the last 100 years or so. This has been implemented by placing the text "SCALE=" in close proximity to the the text "$SCALE$", with $SCALE$ being substituted with the _SCALESHORT_…