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    Ability to export Thematic Display Shading

    We currently use Thematic Display Styles to providing shading/color coding for things like elevation ranges, slopes, etc. but we can't communicate this to non-Bentley products which is a norm in our industry. The ability to export these triangles/...
    over 3 years ago in General 5 Future consideration

    Macro Recording Tool Limitations

    Improve the Macro Recording tool (Drawing > Utilities > Macros) to capture many critical key strokes that are currently ignored. Using "Drawing > Home > Primary > Level Manager > Update levels from library" as an example: 1) Cli...
    over 1 year ago in Programming 0 Needs review

    ITEM TYPE - expression - Calculate difference between 2 shapes

    I would like to be able to use ITEM TYPES and an expression to calculate the difference between two shapes. I know I can use reports, but i want the text to be added as an item type to the element currently this is not possible. Ian
    about 2 months ago in General 1 Needs review

    Provide more useful information to users during a crash.

    When a file crashes it commonly outputs a exception log. To my knowledge these logs are not very useful to users trying to diagnose the issue. I've attached one to a support ticket and they said they are not useful to the Bentley support staff eit...
    over 1 year ago in General 3 Future consideration

    Picklists: Can a Picklist have a description as well as a name?

    It would be useful, when managing Picklists, for a Picklist to have a description as well as a name.For example, a Picklist named "Door Furniture" might be described "Assign this Picklist to Item Type 'Door' property 'fittings'."
    almost 5 years ago in 2D Drawing 1 Planned

    Calculated Fields

    Fields are used to report and annotate File, Model, Cell, Element Properties. It would be good to be able to support the use of expressions so the information extracted can be manipulated or used to calculate / derive other values.Possible uses: W...
    almost 5 years ago in 2D Drawing 0 Planned

    Parametric Cells - Constraints for element visibility

    Currently there are no methods to turn on/off the visibility of elements/nested cells contained within a cell via a boolean constraint. In many cases this would be a useful feature to have, to avoid having to recreate all the possible permutations...
    almost 5 years ago in 3D Modeling 3 Planned

    Delete multiple vertex

    Add option in delete vertex tool to delete multiple vertexes by drag a rectangle or fence.
    4 months ago in 2D Drawing 0 Needs review

    Cell Library - Duplicate Cell tool

    The Cell Library has very little 'file management' functionality. New + delete only. It would be very helpful to at least provide a Duplicate option to the Right-click menu. A lot of Cells will be quicker to create from an existing Cell. Especiall...
    4 months ago in General 1 Needs review

    Update LLM When New Models are Available via Commands

    Will the LLM be improved with newer AI models as they evolve? Currently the AI LLM space is evolving rapidly with newer iterations as fast as weekly builds and monthly improvement cycles. I propose a change request that if Bentley have a permanent...
    4 months ago in General 1 Needs review