When creating a table from a report there is no option to show/hide units of a number type item type property. A setting for 'Unit Formatting' similar to what is available for text fields will be helpful for report definitions.

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...

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 ...

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 ...

Can we have a multi format export tool. (DGN, DWG & PDF) one dialog does all. with options to customise the output paths, file types, zip files etcReasonMost projects require the DGN file format to be issued as DWG and PDF and in some cases a ...

We need more interoperability from element data to Excel.I've seen in the past people linking element information throught VBA to Excel. Can we have this more simplify and more direct. Less click less error less time to transport element informati...

This would be really beneficial to be able to apply projectwise attributes as itemtype metadata, very useful for collaboration & Digital Engineering data exchange.

I came across some threads on the OBD forums about BCF compatibility. There are already some ideas on the MS ideas portal as well, but all seem a bit fragmented. I think what we really need is a complete BCF manager, either developped by Bentley o...

MicroStation Connect needs an easy-to-use application extension market. Runtime automated extensions, User Activated extensions and Event Driven extensions. These can range from running command scripts on demand, to attaching Cell Libraries, chang...