Our agency has PEN tables that allow utilities to appear in color and certain grays to plot and be transparent. There is a section in the PEN table wording that encompasses all other levels and sets them to black. Unfortunately, this also applies to the…

Our organization has many older sheets which were created using non-standard withds to accomodate very wide page sizes. These are on the order of 40"or so down to 24", with even 1/2-inch increments. The vertical height of each sheet (printed half scale…

V8i 08.11.07.443 / SS2 / Win 7 We used to be able to print 11x17's directly to our HP printer but it finally broke down after about 10 years. Our big Canon printer/scanner/copier that does all size sheets is available but a job code has to be inserted…

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…

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…

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…

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

Hello, I want to set the "Default Windows Printer Name" in the PLTCFG. What name do I need to give? [printername] doesn't work \\[server]\[printername] doesn't work Thank you, Marc

I've set up the print configuration file to plot the file path in the border but is it possible to change that text font? Also, is it possible to change the location of that path relative to the paper size. I have used the border text offsets to move…

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…

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…

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

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…

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?

Not sure if this is possible. What I need is a way to set some default print attributes from my plot driver so that the users don't have to keep setting them. I have had a look at printer configuration files and managed to turn the attributes off this…

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…

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…

I am new to Microstation and currently trying to configure a plt file to printer to an Oce 9300. Using a HPGL2 plt file I have set up custom weight strokes for pen thickness. When I use the plt file to print to the 9300 I get no line thickness at all…

We have just upgraded our MicroStation from V8 and XM to V8i. I use Level Symbology to print grayscale by assigning a screened gray to certain color numbers. I am using the same plot drivers and pen tables as I used with V8i and XM. However, my print…