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How To: Update TitleBlocks with PowerShell

November 19, 2018December 22, 2021 Brian Flaherty

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There have been many requests asking for the ability to update titleblocks within MicroStation using PowerShell. The good news is that this can be accomplished. It simply requires you run the Enable-PWTitleBlockUpdate cmdlet which was added to the PWPS_DAB module in version 1.7.6.0.

Get-Help Enable-PWTitleBlockUpdate -Full

The Enable-PWTitleBlockUpdate cmdlet sets a few values within the registry to allow PowerShell to update the titleblocks.

Experiment with it and have fun.

Hopefully, you find this useful. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.

Published by Brian Flaherty

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5 thoughts on “How To: Update TitleBlocks with PowerShell”

Dave Brumbaugh says:

December 2, 2019 at 2:54 pm

Valuable information that I keep coming back to!

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Dan says:

February 11, 2022 at 1:07 pm

Will this also work with AutoCAD DWGs?

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1. Brian Flaherty says:
  
  February 16, 2022 at 6:15 pm
  
  It should work with AutoCAD DWGs, however, you will need to test it. I do not have AutoCAD to do my own testing. Let us know.
  
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David says:

July 28, 2022 at 2:07 pm

I did notice when PWPS_DAB is updating the title blocks it is spawning a new instance of MSTB.EXE for each DGN file but when I do the update manually it will spawn one instance of the EXE and then run all DGN files through it. This is skewing the times and making the automated TB update significantly slower than a similar manual process. I’m using PWPS_DAB 2.1.0.0

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1. Brian Flaherty says:
  
  July 28, 2022 at 2:39 pm
  
  Hey David,
  Thanks for visiting my blog. I hope you find it useful.
  
  Regarding the titleblock update, I would post something to the Bentley Communities page. This will let the developers of the PWPS_DAB module know there may be an issue with the cmdlet you are using. I no longer work for Bentley and therefore am no longer developing the tool.
  
  Cheers,
  Brian
  
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