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Add ability to create associations

Quite a few elements can be placed and at the same time be associated with existing graphical elements (dimensions, text, cells, labels). Assiciations can be lost quite easiliy and it is also possible to drop an association, however creating one i...
almost 3 years ago in General 1 Needs review

Text Favorites should store Word-Wrapping

I have noticed that when creating a text favorite of something like a general note block, I am able to set up word-wrapping and indentations. However, upon saving the text as a favorite, it keeps the indentation formatting but drops the word-wrapp...
over 4 years ago in General 0 Future consideration

Displaying alternate models in a nested reference file

Microstation has the ability to override the symbology of levels in a nested reference file through the use of a configuration variable. Adding the ability to change the display of models at the nested reference level would be a great tool to have...
almost 3 years ago in  0 Needs review

Register Clashes into Issue Resolution Services

In MicroStation we can run clash detection but it will be great if we can bring all the clashes or register it into Issue Resolution Services. By doing that, we can track on all the issues and assign to relevant parties for amendment. Good in term...
over 4 years ago in Collaboration 0 Future consideration

Add switch statement to Named Expressions

Named Expressions (and derivatives like Item Types expressions) offers IIF condition. In some situations, when more values to be checked (see e.g. this discussion) it leads to nested expressions, that are hard to understand. It would be nice to ha...
over 4 years ago in General 2 Planned

Measure utility built into data fields

It would be nice if any distance values that can hold data had an option to measure the distance and input the value directly. For example the chamfer tool might provide a means to click a ruler (activate the normal linear measure tool) after meas...
almost 4 years ago in 3D Modeling 0 Needs review

Expand Key-in cell when editing custom ribbon tools

Currently in the Customise Ribbon dialogue the cell to enter the key-in for a custom ribbon tool is only a single line and exceptionally difficult to edit when placing a long string of key-ins. Please allow the cell to expand and be multi-line.
almost 3 years ago in General 0 Future consideration

Modification of Item types in the .dgnlib files

If any of the item types are updated in the .dgnlib file, it should reflect in all the models/.dgn files associated with it
almost 4 years ago in 3D Modeling 2 Needs review

Make Position Mapping always work in the GUI

While AutoCAD is very much focused on key-in commands, MicroStation has always worked on providing a constantly improving graphical user interface. Despite the advantages of such a visual approach the Position Mapping was and is a very efficient w...
almost 3 years ago in General 0 Needs review

Add the ability to add Comments in the Item Type Expressions

An example of one of the more complex expression is a long series of IF statements to generate a bid item based on other properties of the item type. Some are rather simple, but I have a few that require 8-10 statements (some nested) and it would ...
almost 5 years ago in General 2 Needs review