Whats needed in Mstn v8i even CE is the ability to use a text field on a graphic group(ing) ie two or more shapes put into a graphic group then add the text field on group properties not element properties, ie total area of graphic group , perimet...

It would be great to directly edit Fields and push modification back to source. Currently only way is to locate source and modify it.i.e. A field displaying sheet number.Thanks,Tom

There is need for key-in to reset text justification(or other) override value back to text style. To reset all the text elements so override values are not used, it requires going through each text style with Change Text attributes command.There i...

Fields are a great way to label elements but for coordinates you can only take the absolute values.On site we (and Ii guess everybody) use Floorplans for assembly. Imaginge you have a building with several floors. Each floor on another file so whe...

Hello Bentley, there are times when we need random numbers, or unique numbers in the session, or from the Windows environment. There are a couple of ways to do this for example to generate an integer from Windows %Random command and pass it to a v...

The configuration explorer is not what I am referring to. As a separate management tool to be used against multiple Bentley products. Enabled by a configuration variable, the products would look to the management tool for there configurations. Dis...

Running a report is a great tool. however, if you use the sum option and then try to select the sum, it will only highlight one of the sum in the view rather than all of the sum. ie i have 3 door types door 01 = 10 door 02 = 20 door 03 = 15 if i c...

In the MS Connect Configuration Dialog Box, the expanded configuration variable paths panel at the bottom. [highlighted in my screen shot]. I'd like to be able to right-mouse-click and copy a selected variable path to Clipboard so I can paste the ...

Currently if you open a file that does not belong to the active configuration it displays a message with very limited options and may be confusing to newer users, my suggestion to solve this is as follows. If you try to open a file that has an ass...

When you have shared cells many levels used within are not shown as used in the level list. When you sort your levels for used ones levels in shared cells are not listed. You can switch off levels ""Off by element" but you will not be able to find...