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    Thumbnails map of cells

    I want the cells in a lib or a path to be presented as thumbnails with graphics in a map. Like Explorer can present photos. It will be much faster to recognise and select the cell I am looking for. (Many years ago there was Cell Selector that did ...
    over 4 years ago in General 0 Needs review

    Permit configuration variable in DgnLink

    We can add a DGN Link to an element. That link may refer to a file by a fully-qualified name e.g. \\MyServer\Documents\Office\Word\word.docx. It may be a relative path. Could we use a MicroStation Configuration Variable when defining a file link? ...
    over 4 years ago in Collaboration 0 Needs review

    Add and automate Centroid, Chainage and Materials to Asset Information

    I'm under a lot of pressure to provide an answer for, "How do we add the centroid to all types of 3D elements and have it automatically populated when assigning Asset Information?" I spoke with Carl Myhill on Friday 13/06/25 who confirmed there's ...
    about 1 year ago in 3D Modeling 0 Needs review

    Use Active Attrributes for Create Solids, Surface, Mesh tools

    Solid by Extrusion tool has a Use Active Attributes option. It would be good to provide this option for Thicken Surface Loft Solid Also Associative Extraction (already has levels etc) Unite, Subtract, Intersect Solids, Mesh Swept Surface along Cur...
    over 2 years ago in 3D Modeling 0 Future consideration

    Add tolerance option in Linear Pattern tool

    In V8i a linear pattern follows an arc and a curve with maximum deviation = tolerance value. In the CONNECT Editon this tolerance value disappeared. And the key-in "active pattern tolerance 0.1" also doesn't have effect. In CONNECT Edition any lin...
    over 3 years ago in 2D Drawing 0 Future consideration

    merge reference dialog and raster reference dialog

    merge reference dialog and raster reference dialog or at least use the same icons for taks like move scale rotate
    over 3 years ago in General 0 Needs review

    Ability to reassign Saved View to another model

    I recently had a situation that needed me to import three saved view into another file to apply to a model in that file. I discovered that it would only work if I renamed the model to match the model name listed in the saved view. If the import pr...
    over 2 years ago in General 0 Needs review

    Extrude profiles along multiple paths in one move

    I would like to be able to extrude a series of profiles along a series of paths in one move. Imagine you have defined the paths, added the profiles to the end of the profiles and in one move extrude them along the paths. Currently this is a per pa...
    over 2 years ago in 3D Modeling 0 Future consideration

    Add Additional Custom Folders when Creating WorkSets

    I would like the ability to add more folders at the time of WorkSet creation using a WorkSet template. This would allow creating our entire folder structure for a new project. Currently ORD only creates the dgn, out, and Standards folders (and Sta...
    over 3 years ago in Collaboration 0 Needs review

    Add option to include Level description in the the 'change Element to Level' tool

    Can you add an option to the Remap Element to Level tool, to show the Level description. A lot of UK based users use level description rather than level name as their selection tool. Also make the dialog expandable so users can see more Ian
    about 1 year ago in General 0 Needs review