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Fix snaps not working through filled solids

Snaps do not work through filled shapes even in wire frame regardless of "locate interiors" setting set to none. Reference this thread. https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/f/microstation-forum/214191/cannot-snap-to-parametric-sol...
over 5 years ago in 3D Modeling 1 Planned

Change menu label in Create Saved View dialog box

Since named fences and named clip volumes have been combined to be Named Boundaries, I suggest to change the label in the Create Saved View dialog box accordinly. After all, named fences are here too
almost 4 years ago in General 0 Needs review

Command to un-nest Cells

A unnesting tool would be good to have as part of Mstn. See LuxArtX IT CARF's BIM toolkit. Presumably, this is a regular workflow when receiving MCAD content in the factory design sector. Dropping is problematic as it increases the amount of geome...
almost 4 years ago in General 1 Needs review

WMTS drape

In Microstation Connect 15, WMTS services are a technolgy preview. This works fine. The next step is the possibility to add this WMTS-raster to a scalable terrain model.
over 5 years ago in 3D Modeling 0 Future consideration

Ref Dialog - Toggle imodel / dgn

Mstn 2024 will apparaently have an option to save directly to an imodel, in addition to .dgn. It would be great to be able to able to switch between dgn and imodel in the Ref dialog, in order to take advantage of any benefits that imodels can prov...
over 2 years ago in General 0 Needs review

Cell library Caching

As mentioned elsewhere, Revit and ArchiCAD go through a process of reading from component libraries when a the main file is opened. Being more 'BIM oriented' from the ground up, most content in their models are component / objects so finding and l...
almost 4 years ago in General 0 Needs review

Referenced/Nested Templates in OpenRoads Designer

The idea is that templates could be referenced/nested. For example, you would create multiple templates using barriers and kerbs. However, instead of the barriers and kerbs being "live" in each template they would be referenced in from another tem...
almost 4 years ago in 3D Modeling 1 Needs review

Cell Library Dialog - Multiple Instances

Finding, comparing, swapping, managing Cells is becoming more and more common even for non CAD admin users... in today's BIM, component oriented working enivironment. The current Cell Library dialog is used 99% of the time as a viewer. Only when a...
almost 4 years ago in General 0 Needs review

Command line in Cell Library dialog

It would be good to provide a command line input in the Cell Library dialog. This would allow the user to key in 'AC=Name of Cell' etc and get the Cell Library to filter and list and display the Cell(s). The info and input points are currently rem...
almost 4 years ago in General 1 Needs review

Associate SAVED VIEW NAME with MODEL vs the DGN

Currently, within the same DGN, you can only use a saved view name ONCE. I am suggesting that Microstation uses a hierarchal structure for its saved views whereby the same view name can be used multiple times because the names would be associated ...
almost 4 years ago in General 0 Needs review