• 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…
  • Plotting: Lines are coming out blocky

    Hey, I'm relative new to MicroStation and I'm having trouble producing nice PDFs. The lines aren't coming out smooth when I plot. I don't think it's a line thickness issue and I think I've tried changing the stroke tolerance correctly. Any help? I…
  • [v81 ss3] Plotting with pltcfg

    I have problems with plotting with the pltcfg files. Microstation is hanging when i use pltcfg configuration files to plot to the plotter or making pdf files. Ik heb problemen met het plotten in Microstation, als ik een pltcfg bestand gebruik hangt…
  • No "save as" dialogs appearing with use of Bentley PDF drivers.

    Hello all. We have begun having issues with newly created user accounts. When we add a new user to to ProjectWise ( SS3 - 09.11.09.109 ) they are unable to print to PDF files within MicroStation V8i ( SS2 - 08.11.07.443 ). The "save as" dialog which…
  • 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…
  • IPLOT Error Message

    I am getting the error message shown in the picture on a machine that recently had V8i SS2 installed. We have other machines in the office that are running SS2 and have never had this problem, but when submitting a plot in Microstation be pushing the…
  • Difference between Plotting to PDF and Plotting to Plotter

    We are having an issue with our line weights when we plot to PDF. When we plot to the printer, all of the line weights look exactly the way we want them. The problem occurs when we plot to PDF. Line weights get larger or smaller, but only for certain…
  • Print Organizer Error

    I am getting an error in PO when I open a .pset and then double click on a file to see the Properties. The error reads "An error occurred in the print engine - Protection is disabled (click here for details)" and an OK box. It only pops up the first time…
  • Force Line Weights in pltcfg?

    Is there a way to force Line Weights on inside the pltcfg?
  • Draped Surface Printing

    I created an aerial using the google earth image capture feature in Microstation V8i. As you may know, microstation does this by creating a triangulated surface or mesh, which is then draped by an image, as if the image were a material. The end result…
  • Print Organizer Destination Folder

    Hello, I was wondering if it was possible to have a .pset file with a default destination folder that differed from your MS_PLTFILES defined variable. With batch print you used to be able to set your output directory for each individual .job file and…
  • Print Organizer and ProjectWise integration NOT Working

    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…
  • Text Substitutions-Caps

    My project has a font that is using all capital letters for all text, and small letters for symbols not on the keyboard. The problem is that all of my file names are in small letters and so is our Microstation username. When I do a predefined text substitution…
  • Re: Create single print files like the .ini on V8i

    OK i have been working with the printing styles and it works AWESOME! you need to setup your print driver configurations and then setup your print styles using the print driver configurations. i am in the process of adding a ton of print drivers and styles…
  • 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…
  • Where to centrally store Print Style Definitions?

    The batch plotting in the office has been controlled by a centrally located batch plot specification file. Works Great. As we (finally) migrate to 8i, what file controls the print style definitions, and how do we locate it? So far, I've had to recreate…
  • Print Organizer really slow at printing cross section sheets

    Print organizer is very slow at printing cross section sheets (20+ seconds / sheet). Originally thinking it was just because of a certain linestyle or settings I tried multiple combinations of options and linestyles (even turning off linestyles…
  • Update Printing Capabilities

    I have a couple of questions about when and how to update printing capabilities. We like to have them setup on the network rather than each individual PC. Are all of the new printing features in new versions of MicroStation taken care of in the…
  • V8i .pltcfg loading EXTREMELY SLOW

    I have a problem with MicroStation V8i being extremely slow when we change “PrintStyles”. I have narrowed it down to not being the actual “PrintStyle” in the dgnlib file , but the .pltcfg file that the “PrintStyle” calls. As I said, I have disabled MicroStation…
  • Apply PrintStyle Sloooow

    Picking a printstyle, other than the default, via the "Apply PrintStyle" selection of the print dialog box is very slow. I have tried to simplify things as much as possible by having only (2) .pltcfg files where line weights and linestyle scales are set…
  • Print Organizer Output File names

    Is there a way to get the view number into the output file name?
  • 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…
  • Printing Embedded XLS files

    Here's Microstation SS2 printing issue number 4 of the day: We have a situation where we embed XLS files into sheets, and have encountered sparatic results when printing them. When printing using either a modified Bentley PDF pltcfg, or a modified…
  • [V8i] Centering a sheet using iPlot

    Hello! So the issue that I am having is whenever I try to print out a sheet, it doesn't come out centered. The version that I am using is V8i select series 2. I'm in sheet space when I print so I don't make a fence around what I am printing.…
  • 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…