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'."

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...

MicroStation allows text to be justified in several ways. However, those abilities do not include decimal justification. MicroStation CONNECT includes Tables. Wouldn't it be great to have a decimal alignment option similar to Microsoft Excel and W...

Since Update 17.2 was released we has needed a secure method to start MicroStation with a specific Configuration Name, WorkSpace and WorkSet. Today there's two Command Line Parameters to set the WorkSpace "-wk" and the WorkSet "-ww" but there isn'...

Moving a Parametric element to a new level doesn't move the underlying profiles and other features to that same level. This can result in the software appearing to show levels being used that do not appear to have anything on them. Very confusing ...

An option I use to other applications ie Revit and AECOsim is the 'Hide in View' tool. Simply right click on an element and select Hide in View. That element is then hidden. There is an option to view Hidden items, where you can use the un-hide in...

I would like to see an option to apply Annotation Scale to the arc radius of revision clouds. This would allow clouds to be defined with a nominal radius that would be scaled up or down in the same way that text and dimensions are, for consistent ...

I know that, by default, for legacy reasons, plain text, when placed as "View Independent" will rotate around the lower left-hand corner of the text element. This, however produces somewhat unpredictable and VERY unhelpful effects, as text appears...

Occasionally, someone asks about using Python as a development tool. However, there's no obvious way in which Python per se could be used. An IEEE survey shows that Python is the most popular computer programming language (search for The IEEE Spec...

Apparently the new "Recent Tools" only works if the tool was selected directly from the ribbon. Tools can be activated in many different ways. They can be selected from the ribbon. They can be activated through Position Mapping. They can be chosen...