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    Leader attachments to notes with circular frame

    Hey all, based on the interesting discussion going on here, we have created an idea how we would potentially tackle this. Before executing, we need your input or vote to make sure we have understood your requests/idea properly: Ability to create c...
    7 months ago in 2D Drawing 0 Needs review

    Place Note with Text Frame (Put it back...)

    Put the option back on the Place Note dialog vs. creating a separate style for this! As a user of MS for almost 30 years... this wasn't necessary.
    about 3 years ago in General 1 Needs review

    Add Geographic Coordinate System Information to Model Properties

    Currently a Coordinate system is assigned to a model, but the models' properties do not show it. Show the GCS information on the model property properties dialog. Optionally allow the GCS to be changed.
    7 months ago in General 0 Needs review

    Add Mesh Display Edge Options to Display Styles

    Display Styles are great, but I am wondering why Display Edge Options are exclusive to Mesh Elements instead of View Display Styles? This would solve a lot of issues for when we are settings up Solids, or Parametric Models, or a combination of dif...
    10 months ago in Visualization 1 Needs review

    Hatch pattern preview window

    Would be nice to have a little preview window when selecting hatch patterns.
    almost 6 years ago in 2D Drawing 0 Future consideration

    Tool or setting to toggle text/dimensions/notes background on/off

    MicroStation needs a simpler way to turn text background on or off in text, dimensions and notes.We do not always use Background, so we do not have it set on by default. When we do need it, it requires a special trip into the text styles dialog to...
    almost 6 years ago in 2D Drawing 4 Future consideration

    Recover text from PDF

    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 4 years ago in General 1 Future consideration

    More formatting options for tables

    It would be useful to add more formatting options for table such as subtitles, to be able to format automatically subtitles rows. At the moment there is just one option for Title and Header but you can only have one in a table. Subtitles need to b...
    over 1 year ago in 2D Drawing 1 Needs review

    HTML Author, display longer cell names in selection list

    The HTML Cell Page displays a list of cell to be processed into a HTML list. If the list is longer then the selection box, a vertical scroll bar appears. However, the list cannot correctly display cells with more then 20 characters, it cuts the na...
    about 1 year ago in Collaboration 1 Needs review

    hatch pattern dialog

    Bentley. As it stands we have 4 independent tools for: Hatch Cross Hatch Patterning Create Region They all look and feel the same but offer a very slight variation. Can these 4 tools be merged into one dialog. Ian
    about 1 year ago in 2D Drawing 2 Needs review