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Bentley View - Preview Handlers

View should provide Preview Handlers for DWG, RFA, 3DM, DXF, IFC, OBJ, FBX... not just DGN. A lot of time is wasted if thumbnails are not available. Looking for the relavant files to open takes a lot more time than opening to get a better view, co...
about 2 months ago in General 0 Needs review

Cell description to be added in Properties dialog

I would like to use our cell libraries to produce BOQs for easier collaboration with the construction team. Using Item Types and Reports I would like to be able to use the expression this.GetElement().CellName and this.GetElement().CellDescription...
6 months ago in Collaboration 0 Needs review

Item Type Lookup update when printing

There should be a way to enable Item Types lookup values to update when printing. Otherwise I have to manually go into every file (or batch process) to force the fields to update.
4 months ago in 2D Drawing 0 Needs review

Placing Grid ticks and its annotation in the Microstation drawing

We in Saudi Aramco more than 100 users are using Bentley products and placing the Grids functionality is the basics of any cadd platform, the Grids and its annotation should be part of Microstation rather than Bentley Opencities map. We request Be...
4 months ago in General 1 Needs review

Provide C# API to Place a Cell from Library

C# needs a way to place an instance of a cell from a cell library. C++ can do it, VBA can do it, Python can do it, but C# can't. The .NET API was introduced with MicroStation CONNECT in 2015. Why can't C# place or replace a cell instance?
4 months ago in Programming 0 Needs review

Alternative tool to display element attributes

Hi, In search of an alternative tool for displaying attributes of selected elements, element groups and cells, I opened the following post in the Microstation forum: https://bentleysystems.service-now.com/community?id=community_question&sys_id...
4 months ago in General 0 Needs review

file naming assistant on creating a new file

When choosing New File, a dialogue could open with a dropdown system you can customize, so new files are created by teh office standards, for example we have a file: B1_3D_00_NT, in which B1 = building 1, 3D = orientation of the file (3D/facade/pl...
4 months ago in General 1 Needs review

Long Term Support builds for desktop applications

It's not unusual for my company to work on projects that last for 10yrs or longer (large infrastructure projects) and upgrading a workspace during a project is time consuming and risky. Could you please add a channel for the desktop builds for a l...
almost 2 years ago in General 7 Needs review

Pivot Table functionality for Reports

I have found the "Reports" function in microstation to be very useful in itemizing and summarizing different item type properties. However, I have also found it to be very limiting. I would like to see enhancements in this area that draw similarit...
over 1 year ago in General 1 Needs review

I am a Composition file

In Reference Manager, create a new toggle that can be applied to a reference file that designates that a reference is a composition model so that the composition model level control is never broken unless toggled OFF. Toggle ON = force level overr...
6 months ago in General 0 Needs review