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    Background printing for Print Organizer

    Print Organizer should have an option for background printing. It is inconvenient at best to send a set of sheets to print, and to be unable to work until they are done printing. Depending on what I have to send, I could be sitting idle for an hou...
    about 2 months ago in General 0 Needs review

    Print Organizer error log

    It's not uncommon for a print organizer PSET to have an invalid file, especially in large plan sets. Something (drawing or model) got moved or renamed, and the PSET did not get updated. When that PSET is run though Print Organizer, everything goes...
    23 days ago in General 0 Needs review

    Weld Symbol Annotation Tool

    It is very common for various shops to need a welding symbol annotation on a drawing. Often times, the shops are small or the details are simple (such as a steel member repair drawing) and wouldn't warrant the use of a very expensive and robust pr...
    3 months ago in General 1 Will not implement

    Import MS Office: Word docx

    Mstn CE's Table tool does a great job of importing xlsx spreadsheets. It would be great to provide a similar tool for MS Word. A lot of requirements, notes etc are written in the usual Office, desktop publishing environment that need to be be refl...
    7 days ago in General 0 Needs review

    Improve Error Handling while importing external data with color books .acb

    We were able to import dxf-data, which consistet of unknown color-data in acb colorbook from autocad. After importing this data, Microstation produces faulty colors, which may crash the file. I would like to habe better error handling, that MS at ...
    16 days ago in  0 Needs review

    Make un-share a defaultable setting.

    After extruding 2D parametric cell to a 3D solid in 2026, and then copying said 3D geometry. We have the option to un-share the profile rather then show/hide the profile to change the parametric variation. I would like the option to set a dgn vari...
    9 days ago in 3D Modeling 0 Needs review

    Allow Attaching Raster Image to CAD File with Alternate Origin/Orientation Option

    Many modern image formats (like TIFF or JPEG) contain metadata fields that tell viewing software how to orient the image. By altering the Orientation tag via a tool like ExifTool you can tell programs to mirror or rotate the origin point without r...
    9 days ago in Visualization 0 Needs review

    "Ausschnitt löschen" für mehrere Referenzanhänge gleichzeitig

    In MicroStation 2025 kann der Befehl „Ausschnitt löschen“ derzeit nur auf einen einzelnen Referenzanhang angewendet werden. Werden mehrere Referenzen gleichzeitig ausgewählt, ist der Befehl deaktiviert und die Meldung „Vorgang kann nicht auf mehre...
    25 days ago in Programming 0 Needs review

    Migration tool for user preferences between MicroStation versions

    Problem Description: Up through previous version upgrades (e.g., 2023 → 2024), user preferences could simply be carried over to the new version by copying the prefs directory. Since MicroStation 2026, this no longer works – preferences are no long...
    2 months ago in General 1 Needs review

    Import Stacked Fractions

    Need the ability to place table from Excel and have fractions stacked if appropriate text style is picked.
    about 2 years ago in General 3 Future consideration