• V8i SS2 v08.11.07.492 - Print Organizer not printing new Line Styles

    Hello Folks, We have established .pset's, .pltcfg's and pentables that were created by previous admin folks. The Print Organizer has been working correctly for years now. Recently we added several new Line Styles. When we use the Print dialog the new…
  • 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…
  • Printing Colour Mode

    Hello All I hope someone can help me with this annoying problem. For sometime I have been able to print images of 3D (design) model in gray-scale but recently the option to change the colour mode (in the print dialog box) has been grayed out, not…
  • 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…
  • Cell Utilities and Print Organizer

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    So, I am fairly new to MicroStation, but I am getting the hang of it, however, I do have one serious snag. I cannot seem to get the print organizer to do what I am trying to do. I have been all over the forum, have Googled for tips, have played around…
  • 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…
  • MS V8i SS2 - Printing from Windows 7 Pro

    I have 2 users that are trying to print from MicroStation V8i SS2 using a networked PLTCFG on a Windows 7 Pro 64bit operating system and gets this error; "Error Opening Print File "SAI-DCPS1\HP Designjet 4500ps HPGL2" I have other users using Windows…
  • Transparency PDF Printing Element Fill v Gradient Fill

    Hi All, I have some elements with element fill and others with gradient fill and wish to print both with transparency. I am finding that the element fill will print transparent but the gradient fill does not unless I use Rasterized ON mode which gives…
  • 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…
  • Linestyle plot as straight lines from Print Organizer

    I am having some trouble plotting some sheets with the Print Organizer. There is one linestyle that won't plot right. It comes out as a straight line. It doesn't make sense to me because it is stored in the same .rsc file as all the other linestyles that…
  • [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.…
  • Printing Levels (Layers) to PDF without Hierarchical Folder System

    Hi All, I'm having a problem when printing to PDF! Using the pdf.pltcfg, I have turned on "Enable Optional Content" in Driver Properties to get it to create "Layers" in my PDF to match my DGN, no drama there. My question is how do I get it to…
  • 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_…
  • Print Limit 500 Microstation Print Organizer

    Hi I used to use IPLOT to create pdf's but found that the standard Print Organizer i much faster. But I have a problem when I need to create more than 500 print (plotshapes). I know where to changes this for IPLOT, but can't find the same config…
  • Print Organizer error - Unable to collect state information and internal printing error occurred...

    On a particular set of drawings, when we add them to Print Organizer in MicroStation SS2, we are getting the following two messages for each of the drawings: An internal printing error occurred: [mdlDgnFileObj_getMasterFile] Unable to collect state…
  • Custom - Renaming Expressions

    V8i I am trying to find information to enable the model name to be renamed with a number that is used as the drawing number in each sheet with a text substitution. I want to increment the number for the multi-sheet printout with print organizer…
  • Apply Print Style very Slooooooooooow !

    Hi all, When I choose "Settings > Apply Print Style" from the Print Dialog and change to another Print Style it takes ok not 5 min., but 4 min and 59 seconds to apply. What could be the problem? This is just too long. (V8i SS2) TIA Mike
  • Re: Printing files w/ pdf's attached - long print time. (Network issue?)

    HI Mathieu, Thank you for your detailed explanation, I should have known the mass of data! But when I'm watching the plot process LAN utilization over the time is almost zero for this map for more than 90minutes and CPU utilization is close to 5 or…
  • Printer.pltcfg customization

    Hi to all! MicroStation v8i SS2 - 08.11.07.443 on Win XP SP3. First, a quote from the delivered Printer.pltcfg file..... "Rather than use a single printer driver configuration for all Windows printers, Bentley recommends creating a separate printer…
  • Problem assigning multiple print styles within same PSET

    I have several sheets in the same PSET of varying type. I would like to be able to apply one print definition to several large color sheets and another to print definition to several small black and white exhibits. The process I'm attempting to achieve…
  • hpglrtl.pltcfg plot port question

    updating my old v8 .plt drivers to the new pltcfg's using the template provided with v8i, i have the driver all set up the way I want , just cant tell it where to go, stupid question perhaps, but I am struggling to find it . from my v8 driver…
  • Print Border text font

    I've set up the print configuration file to plot the file path in the border but is it possible to change that text font? Also, is it possible to change the location of that path relative to the paper size. I have used the border text offsets to move…