Can you use standard Microstation configuration variables to define print styles? For example, I would like to define the pen table in a print style by using the MS_PLOTDLG_DEF_PENTABLE variable. The MS_PLOTDLG_DEF_PENTABLE variable would point to a…

Hi our office just updated our Microstation to 11 power draft connect edition and we seem to have a lot of errors on this updates. Pen table disappears in some drawings- Some drawings we 'model' is working fine with attached pen table, however, our…

Hi All, Hopefully this is a simple one, but I've not stumbled across the answer in the forum. I'm using Micro-station PowerDarft Connect. Every time I go to print a file I have to re-attach the Pen Table. How do I permanently attach a 'Pen Table…

We have a stipple / stucco / dot pattern which always prints lighter than desired. If we use the cell library "archpatv8.cel" and a PNT-type pattern "Stucco" to create a hatch, it prints light. If we place the same cell at the same scale into our drawing…

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…

Is there a way to substitute text that is part of a paragraph - without making it its own element? For example, if I had: "See sheets $xx101$ for details" As far as I know, I need two elements for the pentable to recognize this: "See sheets…

Hey everyone - Having an issue with my notes when I'm trying to apply a background fill color to the text box using a pentable. The text prints on top of the fill shape, as it should, but the actual box line is covered by the fill shape. (See attached…

I have a file that doesn't print the same in SS3 as it did in SS2. The attached pdf shows dimensions that print behind some shading, making their terminators and other parts disappear which can be misleading. The pen table I am using in SS3 is the same…

We are trying to write our first Macro for use with our Pentable. What we want to do is have the pen table "Drop element" based on criteria established, the print the element then undo the "drop element" to return it to it original status. So we started…

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…

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…

Has any thought been given to adding the ability to select levels with a wildcard e.g S-* . When selecting level names; if another level is added in a reference later it will not be included in the pentable. If you could select via wildcard, if the level…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…