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Add the settings for grid lines always are ON

In Microstation, I can display grid lines in the view background, but it disappear if I zoom out too much. Spacings fill by grid lines when the view area is wide too much, so I can understand the reason why. But I think that users should be able t...
over 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...
almost 5 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 ...
almost 5 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...
almost 5 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...
almost 5 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....
almost 5 years ago in 3D Modeling 1 Needs review

Add option for Lock files for DGN's located in sharepoint

When files are stored on sharepoint or OneDrive, they can be opened by multiple people at once, sometimes creating multiple versions of the same file unless there is perfect communication which isn't always feasible. Inroads used to have lock file...
over 2 years ago in  0 Needs review

Preference Seed Settings: Starting place set by the Admin, but they then could make as edits

Add a setting where the preference files could load from a seed file just the first time (perhaps they can we written to the preferences folder, but don't override existing files with the same name) , and then the user could edit them going forwar...
over 2 years ago in  0 Needs review

CAD Management

I would like to recommend to add functionality to MicroStation for CAD File Management. I work for an Agency. We keep the files, we never get rid of them. The file might get outdated with a new design, but the linework is still kept. Example, the ...
almost 5 years ago in General 2 Already exists

More options to "Hilite Element"

In the Preferences--View Options, there is the checkbox "Element Hilite" to override the default color (magenta) to another color. I would like that "Element Hilite" had a dynamic color according to the color of the element. For example, if elemen...
almost 5 years ago in General 0 Needs review