When using the command View Rotate Element on a text element rotates the view so that the text rotates to the nearest quadrant. For example if the text is close to upside down it will rotate the text to upside down instead of rotating the view so ...

When a file crashes it commonly outputs a exception log. To my knowledge these logs are not very useful to users trying to diagnose the issue. I've attached one to a support ticket and they said they are not useful to the Bentley support staff eit...

the place label tool is restricted to only elements that exist in the active model. So any elements that are referenced in will not work with the tool. This idea is to update the tool to work with reference elements.

We recently updated to 2024 from V8i and noticed that when attaching a reference, it does not highlight the reference as active in the reference dialog, which it did in V8i. This makes finding the most recent attached reference very difficult in t...

If there are quite a few workspaces with lots of worksets the start-up process can take a very long time. In our case we have 10 workspaces with 50 (and more) worksets each and the time between splash screen and welcone page takes about 90 seconds...

Since Update 17.2 was released we has needed a secure method to start MicroStation with a specific Configuration Name, WorkSpace and WorkSet. Today there's two Command Line Parameters to set the WorkSpace "-wk" and the WorkSet "-ww" but there isn'...

Item Types using lookup values from an excel are very helpful. However, if the excel values are modified while a user already has an active DGN open in a workspace, the user close or leave the DGN and come back to load the new lookup values. It wo...

per CS0352736 i am submitting this as an idea. When using the import shape file tool, the import dialog only shows element templates that exist in the file. I would like to have it show the element templates that are in dgnlib files and configurat...

Display Rules are great but we do miss a new option/action which can set a point style override . Just like it is possible in any GIS application (QGIS etc.). Today we can only change the color, fill, weight etc. at a point (element type: point or...

I can easily see if a file does or doesn't have a Geographic Coordinate System assigned. However, I need to open the GCS dialog to see which system is assigned or to change it. I suggest: hovering the mouse over the GCS icon displays the assigned ...