I need to have the current date show on the drawing when I send to a printer. Preferably in the border but other places is fine if the border isn't an option.

Good morning, A project I'm working on has 3 volumes with over 1500 sheets. I am dividing the project into several psets with their own pen table. Does anyone know what code I would need to input in my pen table to get my p set to start on the desired…

We have encountered an issue in which solid objects are printing wireframe/disappearing regardless of the view style settings within the Microstation file (which is set to hidden line). The picture on the left shows a detail within Microstation itself…

MicroStation Connect Edition 15 Been using MicroStation for a few months on and off now and have been printing drawings to PDF's ok. But now I have a couple of drawings that were produced by someone else that I want to print as PDF’s. However, the drawing…

When we (multiple users) plot to PDF from any project in our Active Projects directory (in PW .453) , we get these errors. We're using ORD Connect 10.10.01.03. We are using the Sheet Set feature. Once Print Organizer runs, the PDF produced contains ONLY…

Hi all Keen to understand how others in the industry are overcoming the issue of creating PDF renditions for .dwg (Autocad or Civil 3D) native drawings in Projectwise. As most would be aware the PW renditions engine runs on a Microstation engine and…

We switched over from traditional RSC fonts to a unified TrueType font (TTF) family and have been struggling with modern PDF applications (e.g. Acrobat, Bluebeam, web browsers, etc.) rendering the MicroStation-authored TrueType font characters such as…

Hi! I'm running into kind of weird issue with Print Organizer - I have found a workaround, but would like to know why this may occur. So, I'll start up one of the DGNs that don't seem to work with the Print Organizer, start the Print Organizer. After…

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…

If I print one of my drawings out of MicroStation V8i to a pdf with a hatch in the drawing (road hatch) then the pdf size is extremely large. If I turn the hatch layer off and print in the exact same way that I printed before, then the pdf size is normal…

I have been using the variable [MS_PLTFILES = $(_DGNDIR)03-DRAFTING COMPLETED] to place my print output file in a folder in my Drawings directory. My supervisor wants to changed this location to be in a different sub-folder in the same project tree…

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…

I have a teammate who is assisting me on a project and cannot print any of the sheets that have an excel table linked to them. We cannot remove the links as the tables still change and need to be easily updated. He is able to insert, move, and update…

Hi, I was trying to play around of the printing method in case the ICS server is down. When I do create rendition, the following code for printing file name works. if (characters eq "$FILE$") then envr_var = "RENDSVC_VAULTPATHNAME" characters =…

Im trying to match plotstyles from DGN to DWG- Does anyone know how many millimeters thick MicroStation lines are (0-7 for example). Thank you, Jonathan

Ok, my brain has officially checked out today... Is there any reason that 2 .dgns would print differently given the following criteria... Using v8i ss4 Both v8 dgns Using print dialog (ctrl+p) same pen table same view attributes same color…

Hi everyone. One of our employees’ microstation crashes as soon as she tries to print. When you click print the print dialog does not even open, instead it freezes a little bit and then opens the send error dialog, if you close it, it opens another…

We upgraded from V8i to CONNECT but when we print with the same drivers and pen tables in CONNECT the dimension style symbology is NOT working. The dimensions only print in a single 0,25mm thickness and the text and arrows do not print in 0,35mm as…

Hello, I was wondering how to make changes clearer on a PDF print. Say I do all my revisions on a dedicated revisions level, say level 99, and it is a hot pink color. Then print the drawing. a color plot would be created. Then I would like microstation…

hello all, I need some help figuring out what is going wrong on printing. I'm using OpenRoads Designer Connect Edition, ver 10.08.01.33 I need to print everything in monochrome (contour lines in grayscale) except for the background aerial photos…

Hello, I have asked a similar question here , but others in my organization are having the same issue. The MS version having the issue is SS4 - 08.11.09.867. I have gone through the proposed solutions in the previous post and more, including: …

Hello Folks, Is it possible for a Print Driver to pick a Printing Preference from a "automatically"? If it can, how do I do it? Say I'm using Printer Driver "!WN_OCEPW750-half-rm312_WTR.pltcfg" and I want to use the "Image" option of "Pure CAD" from…

When I try to open the print organizer window, nothing appears. I have checked to see if the window opens off the screen and it doesn't. I have also restarted multiple times and still print organizer won't open. The regular print window will open. Any…

I have my pen table set up where it looks good when print at the size created. However if I open the PDF and zoom in the lines are too thick to view. In Bluebeam and Acrobat there is a setting to turn off the line widths so the file is legible when…