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Custom Properties in MicroStation for Elements using ECSchema via Bentley Class Editor

It would be great to have some examples for the custom properties addition to elements using the modification of ECSchema through Bentley Class Editor tool. The ECSchema is already shipped with the product. If there would be some manual related to...
3 months ago in General 0 Needs review

Python as a MicroStation Development Language

Occasionally, someone asks about using Python as a development tool. However, there's no obvious way in which Python per se could be used. An IEEE survey shows that Python is the most popular computer programming language (search for The IEEE Spec...
3 months ago in General 0 Planned

Configuration Explorer -> WorkSpace/WorkSet/Personal.ucf

Hello Bentley, I am using Configuration Explorer, but I notice it does not traverse Personal.ucf? Unless I am missing something could a near future upgrade include scanning WorkSpace/WorkSet/Personal.ucf? or could it continue to traverse the struc...
3 months ago in General 0 Needs review

Configuration Variable -> Random Number

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...
3 months ago in General 5 Future consideration

DGN Audit/Repair tool suggestions

If you want suggestions on what an audit/repair tool should do, look in the dusty archives for documentation on the EDG tool from V4 to V7. This utility was very useful for analyzing and repairing corrupted files in a non-graphic environment. Here...
3 months ago in General 2 Needs review

Don't prevent feature service data from loading when feature service GCS issues are encountered.

2023.2 will not connect to features services with WKT GCS strings. 2023.1 would allow the data to be imported but would not reproject the data. If we know the GCS of the data we can force the model's GCS to match and reproject the data via referen...
3 months ago in General 1 Planned

Get Windows Environment Variable %DATE% into Config Variable

Currently when I try to pass the Windows Environment Variable %DATE% into a MicroStation Config variable it doesn't work? Normally to pass a Windows Environment variable to a Config variable I would do something like this, but it doesn't work? _CU...
3 months ago in General 2 Needs review

Ability to Override Read Only Item Type Property

When using a calculated property, there is no way to override this property and the property is read only. We are using item types for pay items, and since there are so many possible scenarios to calculate a quantity, currently users will need to ...
3 months ago in General 0 Needs review

open next and Previous File

I created macro that open the next or previous file. You can use function key to use it. download mvba file and function key in the below link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YIxi9gvYkAbb140LzH_ktDMXXnjN5tl-/view?usp=drive_link
3 months ago in General 1 Needs review

3D PDF texture size

In the 3D plotting options there is an option to set the texture map size to either small (128x128), medium (256x256), large (512x512) or unlimited. Is there a way to make this user defined? Like if I wanted something between large and unlimited. ...
4 months ago in General 0 Needs review