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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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Bentley license costs

I work for many clients and 99% of these are now operating using 2 software houses. Bentley and Autodesk. The cost of Bentley software is extortionate compared to Autodesk In the UK, MicroStation is £7272 per license + £1377 select pa or rental £4...
about 2 years ago in General 1 Will not implement

DWG support in "Copy Fence Contents to New File" Tool

There are always some of exchange for partical objects in DGN file. Existing work flow for part of objects to dwg file: Select objects to be exchanged Set DisplaySet Draw a Fence Use "Copy Fence Contents to New File" Tool to copy them to a new DGN...
about 2 years ago in General 0 Needs review

Annotation cells use referenced geometry

Using cells to annotate coordinates in a 2D drawing is good for X and Y coordinates. However the "annotation cell" takes it's origin in the drawing where it is placed. So if that origin doesn't coincide with the origin of the referenced file we mi...
over 4 years ago in 2D Drawing 0 Needs review

Seed Files by WorkSpace and WorkSet

Can we set the default seed file location and the default seed to use by workspace and work set to override the users last used seed so that when they are changing jobs (workspaces/worksets) they don't drop into the wrong seed folder MS_SEEDFILES ...
over 4 years ago in General 0 Needs review

VBA ESRI GroupedHole element Issue

In VBA I would like to have the same ability as most other GIS elements, to use a groupedhole element within an ESRI shp file referenced to a dgn file. Using MicroStation update 16.1 requires the groupedhole element to be added to the dgn file be...
over 4 years ago in General 0 Future consideration

Screen Menus - Quick viewing and extraction of Cells in Dgn

It would very very very useful to be able to generate SMs and automatically assign hyperlinks to the Cells visible. The hyperlinks would include ElementIDs or similar to allow the user to extract and place the Cell in the active model. https://com...
over 4 years ago in 3D Modeling 0 Needs review

Modify Solids - By Face - to Imaginary Line, Shape/Face, Plane by 3 Points w/ Offset

The Modify Solids tool will be increasing used as more and more needs to be modeled in 3d first for BIM purposes. It would be very very useful to add a few more options in addition to distance. See OpenBuildings Designer's Extend Linear Form tool....
over 4 years ago in 3D Modeling 1 Needs review

Interoperability of 3D content through OpenUSD (Universal Scene Description)

Is there an interest in the OpenUSD pipeline among MicroStation users?
about 2 years ago in Visualization 0 Future consideration

Add text node to item type definition

Autocad block attributes support multiple line text. As a user I'd like to have this kind of feature also available with item types. A new type "multi line text" or "text node" should be provided in the type drop down menu. When importing multi li...
about 2 years ago in General 0 Needs review

Convert tags to item types

When importing a dwg file, block attributes can be converted to item types or tags. There is however no function to convert tags to items. As a user I'd like to be able to convert tags in an existing dgn file to item types. Tag sets should become ...
about 2 years ago in  3 Needs review