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PEN Table exception to make fill/backgrounds white?
Bryan Hubbard
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…
over 1 year ago
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OpenRoads (+ProjectWise) Text Substitution
Grayson Weinberger
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…
over 2 years ago
Printing and Plotting
Printing and Plotting Forum
Test for scale in pentable
Jeff Berleth
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…
over 2 years ago
Printing and Plotting
Printing and Plotting Forum
Pen tables don't work with 3d sections
Kirk
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…
over 3 years ago
Printing and Plotting
Printing and Plotting Forum
Dscript or Pen text based file and specifying colors from a dgnlib colorbook.
Phillip Hess
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…
over 7 years ago
Printing and Plotting
Printing and Plotting Forum
Pen Table Text Substitution Macros Not Working in Print Organizer or Batch Plot
Ryan Milakovich
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…
over 8 years ago
Printing and Plotting
Printing and Plotting Forum
RE: MICROSTATION-PLOT STAMP CONFIGURE
Leonard Jones
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.
over 8 years ago
Printing and Plotting
Printing and Plotting Forum
Dimension note will not resymbolize to black in PDF
JohnSRinaldi
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…
over 12 years ago
Printing and Plotting
Printing and Plotting Forum
Print Organizer and ProjectWise Managed Workspaces
ajs
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…
over 11 years ago
Printing and Plotting
Printing and Plotting Forum
Open and Edit .TBL file
Thex1138
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
over 12 years ago
Printing and Plotting
Printing and Plotting Forum
Convert/export tbl file to ctb?
Eladkcem
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…
over 10 years ago
Printing and Plotting
Printing and Plotting Forum
pen table trick?
Michael J. Madrid
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
over 13 years ago
Printing and Plotting
Printing and Plotting Forum
Pinting dynamic view + pdf
pjf
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…
over 11 years ago
Printing and Plotting
Printing and Plotting Forum
Text Substitution for number of sheets within sub folder in Print Organizer
ajs
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…
over 11 years ago
Printing and Plotting
Printing and Plotting Forum
Pen Tables - Multiple level regular expressions
Rod Wing
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…
over 11 years ago
Printing and Plotting
Printing and Plotting Forum
Print Scale display using named expressions
MikeHarvison
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_…
over 11 years ago
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