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    Level Manager/Level Display 2D/3D

    Hello Bentley, This idea is for a new column in Level Manager/Level Display to allow filtering of 2D and 3D content from being displayed in the Views. This can be applied to 2D attachments, 2D drawings, 2D Content, 2D Rasters when we do not need t...
    almost 2 years ago in 3D Modeling 0 Needs review

    Convert Ref attachments to nested Cells

    Mstn seems to have persistent problems and lack of support for nested Cells. It would be good to have a command to convert Ref attachments to nested Cells. Combined with MSR-I-1734 (a command to convert nested Cells to Ref attachments), this would...
    almost 2 years ago in General 0 Future consideration

    Support Expressions in ALL Input fields

    Example: Place Slab Solid has three input fields: Length, Width, Height. They all track the user's input. It would be great if the input field could accept Expressions... like + 1000 or + A where A is a Variable.
    almost 2 years ago in General 0 Needs review

    Item Types - Support for URL, Keyin, File Link

    I'd like to suggest that Item Types in future be able to support Key In Commands, URL/Hyperlinks and File Links.
    almost 3 years ago in General 1 Future consideration

    Increase data fields with decimal places

    A program this advanced should be able to increase data fields with decimal places.
    almost 3 years ago in General 0 Needs review

    Cell Library Dialog - Folder Structure

    Current Library is getting pretty overwhelmed by the number of libraries that need to be managed and desprately needs a rewrite to include a folder structure. The folder structure will help locate the user, centering him at the active model. At th...
    almost 4 years ago in General 0 Future consideration

    Create Cell - Retain Option

    Similar to AutoCAD, the Create Cell tool should include a Retain 'Cell' in place option. This would speed modeling components in context very much. Model axle, Create Cell, Model Wheel, Create Cell Model axle, Create Cell, Delete Cell geometry, In...
    almost 4 years ago in General 1 Needs review

    Highlight Out-of-date Cells

    Auto Update Parametric Cells has been introduced in Mstn 17. Great news! It would be good to provide a highlighting tool that 'flashes' the out of date Cells on screen. Red for 'Ask' Amber for 'Always'. Blue for 'Never'. The tool would also scan R...
    almost 4 years ago in General 0 Needs review

    Update / Replace Cells - MS_CELLIST

    Auto Update Parametric Cells has been introduced in Mstn 17. As mentioned elsewhere this functionality would be good to extend to Graphic / Shared Cells. Looking at the blog entry, the AUPC tool triggers when a Cell library is attached. This is OK...
    almost 4 years ago in General 1 Will not implement

    Enable labels to tag reference elements

    Labels are extremely useful for annotation, however one downside is that they cannot be tagged to elements within reference files, meaning all labels have to be placed within the same file as active geometry. Fields that the labels are based on ca...
    almost 3 years ago in 2D Drawing 0 Future consideration