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  • 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…
  • 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…
  • 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…
  • 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…
  • 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
  • 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…
  • Keyword Assignment

    We received a design script from a client that uses iPlot and I want to try to use as much of the script as possible in MS SS3 when printing our plans. I see they have a section that looks like straight up text substitution or keyword assignments (I am…
  • 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…
  • 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 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…
  • 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…