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The Bentley Ideas Portals are intended to offer users the opportunity to share ideas more directly and conveniently with our product development teams for consideration. There is no longer a need to raise a technical support ticket in order to pro...
PINNED Add measuring/pick distance tool in parametric solid and variables tools
As a MicroStation modelling user, I would like the capability of filling the Distance field by picking two points (or distance between other elements) from within the tool, so that I can be much quicker in creating solids and other elements where ...

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ORD: Create groups for "Parametric Constraints"

In the "Create Template" window, "Active Template" it would be interesting that the user could create (inside the "Parametric Constraints", subfolders (I will call here groups) to group similar "Parametric Constraints" in the same group. For examp...
about 4 years ago in General 0 Will not implement

TextField should display a URL

TextFields display a property of a DGN element, model or file. Could they be extended to store a URL, similar to a DgnLink? If a text element could contain a TextField with a hyperlink (URL), then a user could view related data on a web site.
about 4 years ago in Collaboration 0 Needs review

A TextTable Cell should contain a URL

A TextTable contains rows, columns and cells. A cell displays text. If we could add a hyperlink (URL) to the text in a cell then tables would become more useful. This is analogous to the DgnLink that we can add to a DGN element. Scenario 1 I have ...
about 4 years ago in 2D Drawing / Collaboration 0 Needs review

Spelling Checker: Ignore All for Session

Hi, I often will use Microstation's Spelling Checker to check multiple dgn files for spelling errors. Some project use unusual callouts that we don't use on any other project, so I do not want to added these callouts to the dictionary. At the same...
about 2 years ago in General 0 Needs review

Solar exposure area

Option to exclude area with 0 insolation for Solar exposure mesh. For example if building is represented with just solid block then don't account foot area which doesn't receive solar insolation anyway. Now the area equals the input element area w...
about 2 years ago in Visualization 0 Needs review

Solar exposure weather file

Utilize snow cover from weather file and calculate possible loss of exposure from snow for less steep surfaces.
about 2 years ago in Visualization 0 Needs review

Solar Exposure

How solar exposure calculator is supposed to be used? All I can get is just nice image with legend without any tools to do some kind of analysis. How to calculate or measure area how much total kwh for example a roof receives? It would be really h...
about 2 years ago in Visualization 0 Needs review

PickLists should have multiple columns

A MicroStation PickList provides a list of alphanumeric data. They are used primarily when assigning Item Types to an element: the operator can pick a value from a list. It works well, but could be better. If a PickList were to support multiple co...
about 4 years ago in Collaboration 1 Future consideration

Name Drawing and Sheet Model Differently When Creating Sheets

When using the 'From Drawing Boundary' to create sheets, there's not an option to name the drawing model and sheet model differently. The drawing model gets named correctly and the sheet model gets named the same with [SHEET] added as a suffix. We...
about 2 years ago in 2D Drawing 0 Needs review

ORD: "Civil Formatting" also for Distance and Direction.

"Design File Settings" dialogbox has the category "Civil Formatting" for ORD. There you can set format basically for manipulators. Sometimes text manipulators are also Length and/or Direction (such as "Line Between Points" ) or add a taper. But in...
about 4 years ago in General 0 Will not implement