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Open the GCS dialog when clicking on the GCS status icon in the lower right corner

It is nice that, at a glance, I can see whether the current DGN has a GCS set. It would be even nicer if I could click on that icon and open the GCS dialog, instead of having to switch to a ribbon that has the right tool. This enhancement would ad...
4 months ago in  1 Needs review

Make the Insert Key Persistent like it used to be.

I keep finding myself wanting the Insert option to stay on when editing text like it used to in V8i and before instead of needing to press the key evertime I need to edit a new piece of text.
4 months ago in General 0 Needs review

Create a table or a graph of the value of a property versus the value of a variable.

For a parametric solid or a parametric 2d shape, it could be useful to export the length, volume or surface properties based on a variable defining this solid. Useful for complex volume calculations for example. The new function would ask for min...
4 months ago in General 0 Needs review

Index of Models and Saved Views within dgn file

We deliver files to construction that contain design, drawing and sheet models within it. Obviously, we can navigate between those using the models window or saved views window, but some people in the construction field are not familiar enough wit...
about 1 year ago in General 0 Needs review

Add documentation about @scripts to MicroStation Help

Every now and again someone posts a question on the MicroStation Forum about @scripts, also known as Script Files . Often the author is a newcomer to MicroStation, doesn't know where to start, and hasn't come across @scripts. MicroStation Help doe...
over 3 years ago in General 3 Needs review

Automation of VBA Coding using AI

As Microsoft has no plan to replace office VBA and promised to maintain, providing built-in generative AI to build VBA code would help Bentley Systems to close the gap for users. Although there are C# addins, C++ bmake etc. those technologies were...
8 months ago in General 0 Needs review

Export DGNLIB name to report

I would like to combine all levels of drawings into one report. For this I also need the layer library from which the layer comes. This option is not available in the reports and should be updated.
9 months ago in General 0 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...
about 1 year 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...
about 1 year ago in General 2 Needs review

LineStyle dialog with a Filter

LineStyle dialog should have a Filter combobox on the top of the list to filter according to: Used styles (although we can do this from Element Selection if previously we "select all") styles of the drawing. styles not used (if we use the Compress...
over 3 years ago in General 0 Needs review