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Lost Dialog Boxes

Hello Bentley, This has been a persistent issue for the entire time I have been a Bentley CAD user. Losing dialog boxes still seems so easy to do, yet difficult to recover/restore. One example is that if I move a dialog outside of the application ...
6 months ago in General 2 Needs review

Add error handling to Sheet Index/ Print Organizer

Currently if you want to access the Print Organizer from the Sheet Index, there is no error handling if a file or sheet model is not found. If you select invalid sheet models from your sheet index and click on the Print Organizer button, nothing h...
6 months ago in General 0 Needs review

Recognize "untitled" level filter in other dialogs

It is nice that other dialogs such as element power selector uses the current active level filter but there are many times when I just want to use the "untitled" filter to quickly define a 'custom' level filter. I wish this temporary 'untitled' fi...
about 1 year ago in General 0 Future consideration

Design Script identify and analyze Item Type data

It would be nice to allow a Design Script to identify if an element has an Item Type and some method to interogate the Item Type data in order to change plotting behavior based on the Item Type setting. This could be extended to MS Pen Tables as w...
about 1 year ago in General 0 Needs review

WMS as background Map

Use WMS similar to Bing background map. Now WMS implementation is not easy to use. As WMS are services thy do not integrate well under Raster Manager and xwms approach is outdated. Why not reuse same WMS list from Servers Manager but under View Se...
about 1 year ago in General 0 Future consideration

Add a preview in "Pattern area"

If we select the tool "Pattern area" and we load a file, such as "acad.pat" or "acadiso.pat" (created in AutoCAD), then the Tool Settings window (Pattern area) should have a preview to show the pattern selected in the drop-down list.
over 2 years ago in General 0 Needs review

Highlight Element in Project Explorer by clicking on Element

Currently, PE allows the user to select and element in the PE tree and highlight, zoom to and isolate the element in the View Window. What would be good is the reverse. The user would select an element in the View Window and have the element highl...
over 1 year ago in General 0 Needs review

Highlight Ref Attachment in Ref Dialog by clicking on Element

Currently, you can:- 1. Select any Ref attachment in the Ref Dialog 2. All elements contained by the Ref attachment hilites in the View Window. What would be very useful is the reverse- 1. Pick any element in the View Window. 2. The Ref that conta...
over 1 year ago in General 0 Needs review

Resolve: MS_REALDWG_VERSION and MS_DWG_VERSION

There appears to be two config variables to point to a default DWG save. MS_REALDWG_VERSION and MS_DWG_VERSION Can this be unified to a single variable and allow us to assign it based on the DWG we want as default? We leave blank, or assign a DWG ...
6 months ago in General 0 Needs review

ProjectWise File path text substitution in pentable for Connect/ORD

Projectwise does not currently have an easy way to pull the metadata down to give a proper filepath on the PW server when printing. The forums do not seem to have adequate answers on this. There are no variables I can seem to set to make it so I c...
about 1 year ago in General 0 Needs review