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…

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…

When creating a pdf is there a way to have the viewer turn on and off the levels we have setup in our drawing on the pdf they receive? This will make it easier for the recipient to navigate the pdf. Thanks in advance

Having an issue with a file printing out of order when using quick print. I created a print set so it would print in order, but I am wondering if there is a fix I can do in the program so don't have to create the print set. I am assuming the models are…

Late last year, after a change of owners, the company swapped our laptops and along with them, all of the software. Since then, when I try to print to a PDF using a configuration file that has worked prior to the changes, the drawing area (inside the…

I'm trying to export my .dgn file to .pdf. Unfortunately, when I print I do not get the high resolution print as seen in my original .dgn file. It is only when I save as a .dwg and then export to pdf do I get the high resolution I want. However, when…

intermittently I get what the two pics show in my screen shots. These are a clients TB and we work on their workspace for their projects. Just wondering if anyone else has run into this. I use V8i (series4). THanks for any help.

I am doing some modifications in P&ID and PFD Drawing. The new lines multi lines are visible but the existing lines at drawing are becoming very thick. resulting in unable to understand the drawing. kindly help to resolve this issue. I have attached the…

Running Power geopak ss4, (version .845) on window 10. When I save out a pdf, it creates random "No image" camera box tiles, on my pdf. It is not shown inmy drawing, or the print preview. Also. It did not do this in Windows 7. Now, using WIndows 10…

In short, a MicroStation model is completed, IFC drawings are published and issued to the Contractor. Eventually, a design amendment is required (say, re-positioning of a few light posts), requiring changes in multiple IFC drawing packages across multiple…

I created a few new levels on my working file to make it easier to edit...... but when I print to PDF the lines I drew with the new levels are not displayed. Any ideas how to fix this? or do I just have to stick to the existing levels?

Hello We are using a document management system that uses acrobat distiller to auto generate PDF's when a drawing/document is issued. I am aware that you can create searchable PDF's with the pdf.plt but because I need to go through a document management…

I created a few new levels on my working drawing, so it makes things easier for editing...... but when I print the file to PDF, the PDF file does not display the lines I drew with the new Levels. All the Plot are checked on. Any ideas how can…

Hi I am using the pdf.plt and noticed that I can set the pens to 1 to make only monochrome printing available, my question is, is there a way to have colour and monochrome printing available but set the default to monochrome as I noticed when I have 256…

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…

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…

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…

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…

How can I convert older Microstation plt files to pdf? These plt file types were created when Microstation did not have the capablity of creating pdf files. Any ideas on how to create these files today?

Hi all, I'm in the process of converting from AutoCAD to Microstation. I have an external VB program that opens .dwg files and creates pdf files from them and adds them to other pdf files to create a document we then supply to our customers. Currently…

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…