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    Cells: Include Saved View on Insertion

    When a Model is inserted as a Cell, it would be good to include the Saved Views, which seem to saved to each Model. Since the Saved View includes Ref attachment and level info, the embedded SV could be used to expand and/or change the Cell's conte...
    almost 4 years ago in General 0 Needs review

    Ref Dialog that supports local nesting hierarchies

    Working with nested References is not very easy and limited. Most of the power options you get with direct attachments are not available. Probably a lot of reasons for why this is. Nested refs have a reputation for slowing things down. Maybe it's ...
    almost 4 years ago in General 0 Needs review

    Attach Cell Library - iTwins

    It would be useful if Mstn's Cell Library would also be able to attach iTwins. The Cell Library's attach iTwin tool would drill down into the imodel and list the Cells in that model. The Attach iTwins tool does not do this, so no duplication. Sinc...
    almost 4 years ago in General 0 Future consideration

    Selected Cells in Cell Library Dialog

    The Cell Library dialog should be enhanced to highlight and filter for selected Cells. This would help provide users a focal point for editing and updating Cells. The Cell library could then function as a mustering point for follow on tasks like:-...
    almost 4 years ago in General 0 Future consideration

    Open Cell for Editing tool + 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 0 Needs review

    Reference Attachment Settings Variable allow DEFAULT LEVEL control

    MS_REF_DEFAULTSETTINGS control most of the reference attachmetn settings. But not one that I find very important: reference default level (see image) This defines the level of the reference, it is very important when exporting to dwg. If it is not...
    about 2 years ago in General 0 Needs review

    Publish queue of ideas that are being reviewed by the moderator

    Prevents users having to guess or check if their ideas have been published.
    about 2 years ago in General 0 Needs review

    Reference Files - Clip Boundary With Key-in, Macro, or Python

    Allowing a quick way to clip reference file boundaries would greatly help with drawing production. At the moment the only way to clip a reference file boundary is by manually doing it, in every file. This proves to be extremely tedious and time co...
    about 2 years ago in 2D Drawing 2 Already exists

    DGN Backup

    Hello Bentley, We already have some configuration for backup but perhaps an additional option might be necessary to silo the backup to a distinct path if the user wants to. The existing configuration variables I am aware of is:MS_DGNAUTOSAVE = 180...
    about 2 years ago in General 0 Needs review

    Dimension override text

    I see you have dimension audit system to check for dimension text overrides, which is a neat feature but would there be away to have setting that would change the color of the dimension text when the text has been overridden at the time of placeme...
    about 4 years ago in General 0 Needs review