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Change Element Attribute -> By Element

Hello Bentley, This is a new Change Element Attribute option to change the Attribute to By Element. The existing Attribute dialogs have; Absolute [By Element], ByCell, or By Level. This new By Element option allows an existing Element/Complex/Cell...
about 2 months ago in General 0 Needs review

Ability to Override Read Only Item Type Property

When using a calculated property, there is no way to override this property and the property is read only. We are using item types for pay items, and since there are so many possible scenarios to calculate a quantity, currently users will need to ...
almost 2 years ago in General 1 Needs review

More and easier to search lists

There are many lists that aren't searchable, those that are you can only search by entering the first letter. What I mean is that you can type in the first few letters and the list jumps to the point in the list that starts with that letter. For e...
10 months ago in General 0 Needs review

Selection handles preference

have a preference setting where you can have select handles button as a default instead of a selection color. Each time you start a new selection today it resets on selection color and need to click on select handles again
10 months ago in General 1 Needs review

Expand ItemType Export/Import Functionality

When exporting ItemTypes to Excel, allow the following as options: Choose Excel file to export to (can currently only select folder and name is automatic) Allow exporting from multiple dgns (with a selection of all models, default only, etc.) Sele...
almost 2 years ago in Collaboration 1 Needs review

Translate Python API Docs to Human Language

I am trying to learn to use Python for our programming needs but find the documentation and lack of examples very depressing. Could we at least get the API docs to include code syntax examples for each topic.
8 months ago in Programming 1 Needs review

Missing Format Painter

We miss the Fomat Painter in MicroStation (like in MS Word, AutoCAD etc.). Actually I asked for this in a Service Ticket years ago. Now I notice that 2023.2 has expanded the "Change Attributes" tool with an ability to change Fill Color: https://do...
almost 2 years ago in  2 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 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

Add change level to the Change Text Attributes tool

When using the Change Dimension Attributes tool, the layer name of the dimension object also changes. Changing text attributes doesn't change the layer name and requires an additional action via Change Element Attributes. I'd like to see this proc...
4 months ago in General 0 Needs review