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Place Element - Custom Linestyle Scale by-Element

Hello Bentley, Element Linestyle scales can already be applied and modified on a per-Element basis. This idea is to add a tick-box in the place Element palette when a custom linestyle is selected and to allow the user to enable and apply a scale t...
4 months ago in 2D Drawing 0 Needs review

Make Text word wrap work without spaces

would be nice if word wrap would work without needing spaces.we typically do a pen table replacement for the full file path when printing. but the paths are going off the page. word wrap doesnt work most of the time because it only wraps whole wor...
almost 4 years ago in 2D Drawing 1 Planned

Create gap in dimension lines

With the section callout tool, we have the ability to create a gap in the line between the wing and the tail. It would be amazing if we could get that same functionality to create a gap in dimension lines (leaders, extension lines, etc). Very freq...
over 1 year ago in 2D Drawing 2 Needs review

Picklists: Can a Picklist have a description as well as a name?

It would be useful, when managing Picklists, for a Picklist to have a description as well as a name.For example, a Picklist named "Door Furniture" might be described "Assign this Picklist to Item Type 'Door' property 'fittings'."
almost 4 years ago in 2D Drawing 1 Planned

Calculated Fields

Fields are used to report and annotate File, Model, Cell, Element Properties. It would be good to be able to support the use of expressions so the information extracted can be manipulated or used to calculate / derive other values.Possible uses: W...
almost 4 years ago in 2D Drawing 0 Planned

Text: Decimal Justification

MicroStation allows text to be justified in several ways. However, those abilities do not include decimal justification. MicroStation CONNECT includes Tables. Wouldn't it be great to have a decimal alignment option similar to Microsoft Excel and W...
almost 4 years ago in 2D Drawing 2 Planned

Text - Add text box around multi-line text

We need an option to place a text box around multi-line text, as it stands if text background is turned on, it applies a text box to each line. We need an option where it applies one text box around the multiples lines of text. see image Ian Lapper
5 months ago in 2D Drawing 1 Needs review

Hide in VIEW

An option I use to other applications ie Revit and AECOsim is the 'Hide in View' tool. Simply right click on an element and select Hide in View. That element is then hidden. There is an option to view Hidden items, where you can use the un-hide in...
almost 4 years ago in 2D Drawing 7 Planned

Hatch pattern preview window

Would be nice to have a little preview window when selecting hatch patterns.
almost 4 years ago in 2D Drawing 0 Future consideration

Tool or setting to toggle text/dimensions/notes background on/off

MicroStation needs a simpler way to turn text background on or off in text, dimensions and notes.We do not always use Background, so we do not have it set on by default. When we do need it, it requires a special trip into the text styles dialog to...
almost 4 years ago in 2D Drawing 3 Future consideration