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The Bentley Ideas Portals are intended to offer users the opportunity to share ideas more directly and conveniently with our product development teams for consideration. There is no longer a need to raise a technical support ticket in order to pro...
PINNED Add measuring/pick distance tool in parametric solid and variables tools
As a MicroStation modelling user, I would like the capability of filling the Distance field by picking two points (or distance between other elements) from within the tool, so that I can be much quicker in creating solids and other elements where ...

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Dynamic Creation of Nested/Compound Cell

Hello Bentley, This is a new Place Cell Feature to create Compound Cells on the fly. With a new Place Cell palette, the user has most of the existing Cell Properties available to enable or modify, but this tool simultaneously opens the Cell Librar...
7 months ago in General 0 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...
12 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
12 months ago in General 1 Needs review

Short Term Tool History

Create a short-term memory within tools to see the last few uses of it and quickly jump between recent settings used.
over 1 year ago in  1 Needs review

Make place label work for referenced elements

the place label tool is restricted to only elements that exist in the active model. So any elements that are referenced in will not work with the tool. This idea is to update the tool to work with reference elements.
about 1 year ago in General 0 Needs review

Design File Cleanup to delete lines by length

It's not unusual to deal with 3D exported files that have thounsands of small geometry: zero length or very small lines (<0.01cm). The idea is to add a feature to the existing "Design File Cleanup" tool that filters geometry by length and selec...
10 months ago in  2 Needs review

Copy and Increment Text Improvements

1) Add an alpha mode to increment textWith an increment of 1 Alpha mode would Increase 11A to 11B, ..., 11Z, 11AA etc2) Add first and/or last option so"T22a" could be incremented to both "U22a" and "T22b" or "U23b" if numeric was also on3) Tools s...
about 5 years ago in 2D Drawing 3 Future consideration

Extend in line leader to text

In our office it is a current standard to keep callout text left justified. it is more in line with the idea that the English language is read from left to right, so right justifying is more difficult for the eye to follow. I have seen a few posts...
about 5 years ago in 2D Drawing 4 Will not implement

update cell geometry but keep parameters field

When using the "Replace Cell" → Update functionality and unchecking all options, the system still resets the values associated with item types. It could be good to exist an option that would keep the values from the item types.
about 1 year ago in 3D Modeling 0 Future consideration

The ability to save, export, import level settings or states from one DGN to another

Create a tool that allows the user to save multiple "snapshots" of level settings within a DGN file for both active levels and reference file levels. These "snapshots" would include all typical level settings (i.e., colors, linetypes, off, on, etc...
10 months ago in General 1 Needs review