Using Print Sets and Print Organizer in Integrated MicroStation
Print Organizer is a print utility in MicroStation that lets you print multiple files at once, and focuses on printing DGN, DWG, raster, and PDF files (instead of the Print dialog that only lets you print the active design file).
If you are going to print the same set of files on a regular basis (for example, at different milestones throughout the life of a project), you can save the set of files as a print set (.PSET) file in Print Organizer. When MicroStation is integrated with ProjectWise, you can save new print set files to ProjectWise, and open print set files stored in ProjectWise.
While it is beyond the scope of this document to describe the full functionality of Print Organizer (see the section on Print Organizer in the MicroStation help), the main areas where ProjectWise integration provides additional functionality are described here.
When you open a print set file stored in ProjectWise from Print Organizer, it is checked out to your working directory. Documents that are referenced in a print set are copied out on demand. Therefore, if you are modifying, previewing, or printing a job, only the documents referenced by that job are copied out.
Configuration settings blocks and workspace profiles are both supported in Print Organizer. When documents are added to a Print Organizer Print Set file, Print Organizer reads the configuration settings blocks or workspace profile assigned to the document in order to access the appropriate workspace.
Print Organizer's Advanced tab provides controls to specify a User and/or a Project workspace, but are ignored if a configuration settings block or workspace profile is assigned to the document you are previewing or printing.
Save a new print set file to ProjectWise
- In Print Organizer, select .
- In the Create Print Definitions dialog click Add.
- In the
Select Files dialog, select the
files you want to add and click
Add, then click
OK.
The selected files are added to the Input files list in the Create Print Definitions dialog.
- Click
OK.
The files are added to Print Organizer.
- Save the new print set
file to
ProjectWise ().
The dialog that opens next depends on whether or not you have a default method set for creating documents in ProjectWise:
- If the Select a Wizard dialog opens, select either No Wizard or Advanced Wizard and click OK, then follow the instructions in the appropriate option below. (Selecting No Wizard opens the Save Print Set File dialog; selecting Advanced Wizard opens the Advanced Document Creation Wizard.)
- If the Save Print Set File dialog opens, click Select if you want to change the folder in which to store the print set file, then fill out the document property fields as necessary and click Save.
- If the Advanced Document Creation Wizard opens, click Next. When the Select Target Folder page opens, select the folder to store the new print set file in and click Next. On the Document Properties page, enter the name, description, file name, and version of the new print set file and click Next. On the Create a Document page, click Next. On the final page, click Finish. You are done.
- Close Print Organizer and check in the print set file when prompted.