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...
Invariably, loading a reference, requires locating the objects once attached, Fit View is the easiest way to find out where they are. Using two monitors, Microstation proper is on one screen and the reference palette and others are on the second s...
Parametric cells are only placed on active level, compared to Graphic cells where the levels are independent. This limits creation of 2D parametric cells where many levels are included with the cell since the active level that the parametric cell ...
User wants to be able to move an object and emmidiately start rotating it after placing. This would save time in the part where you have to reselect and snap the object again. Similar for a copy command. Also a checkbox to turn the move tool into ...
about 2 years ago
in 2D Drawing
4
Future consideration
Standards Checker Added Ability to check for None as the text/dimension style
When users are placing text and dimensions they can do so by using None as the text style and None as the dimension style. The Standards Checker does not allow to check for this. Having the ability to ensure users are using the client delivered te...
When opening a V7 file in V8, add an option to upgrade the file to V8 within the pop up window.
When you attempt to open a V7 file in V8 or CE MicroStation, there is a pop-up window that gives instructions on how to change your settings to "Allow V7 dgn file open". It would be helpful if a button was added to this pop up to allow this settin...
With introduction of PDF import capability there is now issue that text is broken after mport. In AutoCAD there is command to create text form lines which is imported from PDF - PDFSHXTEXT Adding PDF as vector attachments such tool is now needed i...
almost 3 years ago
in General
1
Future consideration
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...
Parametric Element Option to Move entire element to desired level
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 ...
Configuration variable Operators -> Expand support
Configuration variable Operators -> Expand to support other file extensions Currently the operators support .cfg., ucf, pcf, and in some cases dgn/dwg I use some custom file extensions like .debug, .adhoc and .txt Perhaps if the preprocessor ca...
An advanced transform tool that can combine Rotate, Scale, Move, and optionally Mirror simultaneously in a single operation. The user first selects the element(s) to which the transform is applied, then draws 3 or more transformation lines where t...