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Make it easier to see text fields that have lost their element associations and are now stale.

It can be hard to notice if a text field is no longer updating and are stale. Would it be possible to have a way to visually notice stale labels by replacing the stale text with the word "stale" or something equivalent? Perhaps all text fields hav...
over 2 years ago in  2 Future consideration

Repair function for upf (User Profile)

The User Profile File is damaged with many installations "regularly". This causes random effects and isssues. And is often leading to lengthly discussions in the forum and probably Service Tickets. It would be good to have a tool to check the upf-...
almost 3 years ago in General 6 Future consideration

Print Preview Zoom

I would like to be able to zoom and pan in the print preview window. Often it is necessary to check that linestyles and text styles are printing correctly.
about 4 years ago in General 3 Future consideration

Display Rules - new action: Change point symbols

Display Rules are great but we do miss a new option/action which can set a point style override . Just like it is possible in any GIS application (QGIS etc.). Today we can only change the color, fill, weight etc. at a point (element type: point or...
over 1 year ago in General 0 Future consideration

Add background option to Dimension Style > Text > Notes > Text Frame

It would be very nice and helpful to be able to assign a background color to the Text Frames in the Dimension Styles. So they can be used for Labels, and such. It would great to make it work like the Text Styles do, but to actually fill out the wh...
7 months ago in 2D Drawing 4 Future consideration

A TrueType font library that provides drafting and other CAD symbols

It's currently impossible to create a text element in MicroStation that contains a drafting symbol (such as a center line). A drafting TrueType font library would solve that problem. MicroStation text could include the drafting symbol along with o...
about 4 years ago in 2D Drawing 4 Future consideration

import shape file honor dgnlib config variables

per CS0352736 i am submitting this as an idea. When using the import shape file tool, the import dialog only shows element templates that exist in the file. I would like to have it show the element templates that are in dgnlib files and configurat...
4 months ago in General 0 Future consideration

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...
9 months ago in General 3 Future consideration

Add option in batch process to process ALL Sheet models and Drawing models

Currently the only two options are "All Models" or 'Default Model Only".
almost 2 years ago in General 3 Future consideration

Change font of german version of display style "Thematic Height"

When using the display style "Thematic: Height" the included legend doesn't work with the german word "Höhe". A change is only possible with Descartes, as far as I know. You could change the font style for the german version or implement the optio...
2 months ago in  0 Future consideration