iModels are still a very powerful and important part of the Bentley Microstation based infrastructure software (like OpenBuildings, OpenRoads, OpenPlant, etc...) The problem is that you can't make reports using iModels, this means if we have someo...

All As per the 'Bentley View' saga/idea, we need to YOU to VOTE to push Bentley into making a HOME USE license available for ALL CONNECT software and NOW, not in 12-24 months time. As it stands, this is not possible and Bentley are telling users t...

With the increase in data being added to a DGN files, the file sizes are increasing, more so with the huge DWG files that are coming about.This all relates to a time it takes to open Bentley applications. It would be good to have open dialog optio...

Nowadays Instead of Esri's SHP of GDB files, GIS information is shared via a GeoPackage file.This is an open, standards‑based geospatial data format defined by the OGC.GeoPackage is designed to store multiple types of spatial data in one single fi...

Just referencing the geometry would be fine.

What's in a DGNLIB? This question has been asked a few times on the V8i Forums.BackgroundAdministrators are increasingly using DGNLIBs to define project standards. That's one reason why Bentley invented DGNLIBs, to provide a project-wide resource....

Now that we have the ability to add tables to our DGN files. We can add the areas of many shapes to the table. It would be very useful to have an option to calculate the sum of all the areas. At the moment we have to copy/paste this into excel to ...

KML files, provided by the Flemish government (https://download.vlaanderen.be/Catalogus) cannot be read in Microstation. I added a sample file as attachment, which could be useful. (Keep in mind that it is a PDF document. Copy/past the content in ...

MicroStation CONNECT Reports let you export DGN data to an external file. You can choose various file formats, including Excel.There is an apparently-related key-in command REPORTS EXPORT. However, that command is not documented and appears to do ...

Allow IFC export of any model in a file, not just the default model, as is currently the case. Or, at the very least, display a warning message when attempting to export a non-default model, since currently there is no indication and the result is...