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    Options for Element Info dialog

    Often times the users is unawareof the fact that, having the Element Info dialog opencan bethe cause of apparently slow responses from MicroStation.For example:If you have the Element Info dialog open when you select a large number of elements, or...
    almost 6 years ago in General 2 Planned

    Microstation should support DWG Dynamic Blocks in a 1:1 way, hopefully with Cells

    As I found in an old Topic : https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/f/z_-archived-microstation-v8i-forum/70720/dynamic-cells-blocks/186312#186312
    almost 6 years ago in Collaboration 2 Planned

    Coordinate transform results to new named group

    When using coordinate transform utilities add elements to named group so it is possible to not lose info that elements are converted. This is compatible with DGN/DWG workflows.
    2 months ago in General 0 Needs review

    Users "prefs" deployed through Connection Client

    As most of the users settings are saved to C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Bentley\MicroStation\25.0.0\etc and the contents of this folder is only 1 Mb. Could a User Profile function be added so that if I was to sit down on another Pc in the offic...
    6 months ago in  0 Needs review

    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 6 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 6 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 6 years ago in 3D Modeling 3 Planned

    Filters In the Element Selection Palette

    This is a new Filter for each type of selection tab to allow a text filter of the list. The example shown is from Level Manager, but this idea extends to all Element Selection criteria, not just Levels.
    over 1 year ago in General 1 Needs review

    Undo History

    For some inexplicable reason Microstation does not provide users with a history of commands that they can use to undo and redo. This is a common and vital feature of most design and authoring software. Examples include Microsoft Word and Excel, as...
    over 3 years ago in General 6 Future consideration

    Configuration Parser to examine final value of a variable

    It would be very helpful if we had a tool that would allow us to see the final, parsed values from the configuration code. Not the final variable definition, but the actual values MicroStation is using. For example, if I want to explore the MS_DGN...
    7 months ago in General 0 Needs review