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…

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…

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…

Hey, I'm relative new to MicroStation and I'm having trouble producing nice PDFs. The lines aren't coming out smooth when I plot. I don't think it's a line thickness issue and I think I've tried changing the stroke tolerance correctly. Any help? I…

Hey, I'm relative new to MicroStation and I'm having trouble producing nice PDFs. The lines aren't coming out smooth when I plot. I don't think it's a line thickness issue and I think I've tried changing the stroke tolerance correctly. Any help? I…

We are using the Bentley PDF Print Driver to create PDF files of our project sheets. The driver is modified, some what; limited to form sizes, color settings, and PDF resolution to 300,300. We set our cross section sheets with a transparency 30 and…

When I print this file to pdf, the entire page goes is gray. I have only this problem in certain files with reference models but not on all of them. Any suggestions on what I can do to fix this?

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…

hello all i have a filled complex shape - color = 0, linestyle = custom (doesnt matter, acts same with predefined ones), weight = 1, fill = 0. While weight was set to 0, i wasnt able to see the boundary (i found this 'work around' on this bentley forum…

I am creating sheet files for road corridor with the Google Earth Image superimposed. I captured Google Earth image in the 3D file with correct coordinates and it came out good in my sheet files when referenced 3D file to base file I am using. Problem…

This is a comment and a question... We pay for Bentley Learn and while it can be handy and has some good content; sometimes I spend FAR more time trying to find the training than is reasonable (or frankly worth the effort). For example I wanted find…

I've set up a new PDF printer configuration file at work. Everything seems to be working except one thing, the line colours. It seems that the colourspace is different to the one we need to use. Lines that are supposed to be (RGB) 0,0,0 are coming…

Is there a way to get the view number into the output file name?

How do I save a 3D sheet file as a 2D sheet file? I'm having trouble printing to pdf files as 2D references in a 3D sheet file produce 3D 'windows' with viewing tools in the pdf file. Many thanks, Paul

I just switched form V8 to V8i. I have files with different patterns in them. I can create pdfs of the files in V8 and all the pattern weights are shown as they should be. However, when I create the pdf's in V8i utilizing the same print drive that…

Hello Microstation Compatriots, I've been running into a bunch of issues on a recent project. All of them revolve around me printing PDFs. Firstly: There seems to be an invisible layer I can' seem to delete. This is how my drawing looks: …

We utilize custom line styles in our workspace i.e. a "w" inserted in a line for waterline. When we print this sheet using the standard print option and our pdf plt driver, it shows up correctly. I am new to Print Organizer so hang in there with me. I…

I don't seem to be able to get 3D PDF's with shadows! Is this a limitation or can anyone shed some light on it? Can we get this implemented? Ben

Hello all, I am currently working with Microstation V8i. I am almost finished with some testing, but I still have the following problem. I am using PDF Factory Pro for plotting my files to PDF. With the pdf.pltcfg I get a layered pdf file, but when…

Hi Everyone, Maybe some can help me here. I have a question: Is there any possibility to print 3d drawings to -> 3d PDF with e-links to use inside 3d PDF? For example If i have 3d PDF to have inside with e-links to other pdf files. I want to create something…

I have an A4 sized sheet with 2 attached raster images (each original image is just over 1 Mb ), but the PDF output file is over 8Mb!!....not very useful..... can someone help - I've not touched the driver configuration.

Hello all. We have begun having issues with newly created user accounts. When we add a new user to to ProjectWise ( SS3 - 09.11.09.109 ) they are unable to print to PDF files within MicroStation V8i ( SS2 - 08.11.07.443 ). The "save as" dialog which…

Hi Is there a known issue with printing patterns to PDF using the Bentley PDF driver? We've found that hatching can increase the file size by a significant amount using the Bentley driver compared to printer.pltcfg and using Acrobat: Our…

I am using V8i and am using a ,pltcfg that will generate levels in the PDF file that can be turned on-off. I am getting sporatic output results. About 20% of the time. I get a pdf that does not contain all the levels that were displayed…