• OpenRoads (+ProjectWise) Text Substitution

    Grayson Weinberger
    Grayson Weinberger
    Hi, I am using OpenRoads Designer CONNECT (2020 Release 3) alongside with ProjectWise. I am trying to automatically populate multiple fields from a border reference file. This border is referenced into each sheet, where the fields will have different…
    • over 2 years ago
    • Printing and Plotting
    • Printing and Plotting Forum
  • Printing with pen table

    Jeff Berleth
    Jeff Berleth
    Ok, my brain has officially checked out today... Is there any reason that 2 .dgns would print differently given the following criteria... Using v8i ss4 Both v8 dgns Using print dialog (ctrl+p) same pen table same view attributes same color…
    • Answered
    • over 2 years ago
    • Printing and Plotting
    • Printing and Plotting Forum
  • iam using bentley map enterprises v8i select series 4background raster is not printing vector is in seeing preview

    Sivakami s
    Sivakami s
    • over 2 years ago
    • Printing and Plotting
    • Printing and Plotting Forum
  • Direct Print output differs from pdf printed from same printer.

    Duncan Gammie
    Duncan Gammie
    I have set up my plot drivers so that A3 pdf and A3 plotter are identical, lineweights/line styles etc etc. Likewise with A1pdf and A1 plotter drivers, identical. When I print the A3 pdf from the same A3 plotter, the output is different, in that the…
    • over 8 years ago
    • Printing and Plotting
    • Printing and Plotting Forum
  • V8i .pltcfg loading EXTREMELY SLOW

    Mike Francisco
    Mike Francisco
    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…
    • MY_510_C-Size.pltcfg
    • over 12 years ago
    • Printing and Plotting
    • Printing and Plotting Forum
  • Apply PrintStyle Sloooow

    Mike Francisco
    Mike Francisco
    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…
    • over 12 years ago
    • Printing and Plotting
    • Printing and Plotting Forum
  • why won't this work?!?!

    Linvillin
    Linvillin
    When trying to use the Print Organizer, I select my files and print style, but when I click OK nothing happens. I noticed in my Message Center that "The process 'C:\Program Files\Bentley\MicroStation\ustation.exe' encountered an error during startup"…
    • over 13 years ago
    • Printing and Plotting
    • Printing and Plotting Forum
  • How do I save a 3D sheet file as a 2D sheet file?

    Paul Barton
    Paul Barton
    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
    • over 13 years ago
    • Printing and Plotting
    • Printing and Plotting Forum
  • Text Substitution for number of sheets within sub folder in Print Organizer

    ajs
    ajs
    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…
    • over 12 years ago
    • Printing and Plotting
    • Printing and Plotting Forum
  • Print Limit 500 Microstation Print Organizer

    M.Laursen
    M.Laursen
    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…
    • Answered
    • over 10 years ago
    • Printing and Plotting
    • Printing and Plotting Forum
  • Apply Print Style very Slooooooooooow !

    Mike Francisco
    Mike Francisco
    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
    • over 12 years ago
    • Printing and Plotting
    • Printing and Plotting Forum
  • 3D printing

    Harry H. Arends
    Harry H. Arends
    Has anyone be sucsesfull using V8i in creating 3D printable objects and if so how. I seem not to be able to create a object in Microstation, export it with VRML into a printer usable file and print it. It reports manifold error after uploading the…
    • dg2421_45.dgn
    • over 13 years ago
    • Printing and Plotting
    • Printing and Plotting Forum
  • IPLOT Error Message

    Phillip Carlisle
    Phillip Carlisle
    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…
    • over 12 years ago
    • Printing and Plotting
    • Printing and Plotting Forum
  • Difference between Plotting to PDF and Plotting to Plotter

    T Footle
    T Footle
    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…
    • over 13 years ago
    • Printing and Plotting
    • Printing and Plotting Forum
  • Draped Surface Printing

    Pablo Escobar
    Pablo Escobar
    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…
    • over 10 years ago
    • Printing and Plotting
    • Printing and Plotting Forum
  • Open and Edit .TBL file

    Thex1138
    Thex1138
    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
    • over 12 years ago
    • Printing and Plotting
    • Printing and Plotting Forum
  • Re: Color Books taking on Color Table Index Numbers

    Gunnar Gantzhorn
    Gunnar Gantzhorn
    Andrew Edge: Pen tables were designed for a simpler time. When named colors and RGB colors were introduced to MicroStation, it posed significant problems to the pen table architecture. Andrew, the issue I want to bring up is only indirectly…
    • over 14 years ago
    • Printing and Plotting
    • Printing and Plotting Forum
  • Print Organizer and ProjectWise integration NOT Working

    ajs
    ajs
    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…
    • over 11 years ago
    • Printing and Plotting
    • Printing and Plotting Forum
  • Print Organizer and ProjectWise Managed Workspaces

    ajs
    ajs
    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…
    • over 12 years ago
    • Printing and Plotting
    • Printing and Plotting Forum
  • Where is MicroStation PDF Composer V8i?

    Jo Terri Wright
    Jo Terri Wright
    As you may know, MicroStation PDF Composer was introduced with MicroStation V8 2004 Edition as a tool for users to easily take a set of design files and create a content rich PDF. There will not be a MicroStation PDF Composer for the V8i release. Instead…
    • over 14 years ago
    • Printing and Plotting
    • Printing and Plotting Forum
  • Re: Is there a default pen table?

    Rod Wing
    Rod Wing
    To find the default weights: 1. Create a new pen table 2. In the Modify Pen Table dialog select Map Pen Weights 3. In the Map Design Weights dialog click Create This will display the default weight mapping. However, keep in mind that weight…
    • over 11 years ago
    • Printing and Plotting
    • Printing and Plotting Forum
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