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    View Independent text that rotates around Justification

    I know that, by default, for legacy reasons, plain text, when placed as "View Independent" will rotate around the lower left-hand corner of the text element. This, however produces somewhat unpredictable and VERY unhelpful effects, as text appears...
    almost 6 years ago in 2D Drawing 0 Planned

    Support IFC4 import/export with textures

    Add support for IFC4 import/export with textures. Add support for entities IfcBlobTexture, IfcPixelTexture, IfcImageTexture. At least entity IfcIndexedColourMap is already implemented as it shows correctly. Attaching examples with textures from bu...
    almost 6 years ago in Collaboration 5 Planned

    Automation using Visual Scripting

    Visual Scripting is a feature that uses a graphical interface to lower the entry barriers for users to create their own automations and tools with or without the need to code. Current technology exists today in various forms such as Grasshopper, D...
    over 2 years ago in Programming 4 Future consideration

    Need a manipulation tools called ALIGN by Element

    Something that has been missing from MicroStation is a manipulation tool called 'ALIGN to element' tool. In other applications such as ACAD and REVIT this tool is really powerful. MicroStation is lacking functionality, which could very easily be i...
    over 4 years ago in General 1 Future consideration

    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 ...
    over 2 years ago in General 1 Needs review

    Configuration File Syntax Checker

    A command line tool that can be used to syntax check configuration files. Not an extensive top to bottom configuration checker, just a tool for verifying syntax in a single file. Do all %if have a corresponding %endif, are all parenthesis balanced...
    over 2 years ago in  2 Future consideration

    Allow Annotation Scale to be applied to revision clouds

    I would like to see an option to apply Annotation Scale to the arc radius of revision clouds. This would allow clouds to be defined with a nominal radius that would be scaled up or down in the same way that text and dimensions are, for consistent ...
    almost 6 years ago in 2D Drawing 0 Planned

    Simplify Licensing of Bentley Viewer

    While I agree that registering one time to download a version of free software from a website is not uncommon. Linking to a remote website or the checking out of time constrained licenses every time you use the software is definitely NOT common. I...
    over 4 years ago in General 3 Will not implement

    fix bugs before new functionality

    Can we the BENTLEY USERS request that Bentley concentrate on fixing the endless BUGS before they implement new functionality
    about 3 years ago in General 5 Will not implement

    Add IFC Export Properties

    Add file properties (project name, site, author etc. ) in DGN so these properties will be available in IFC after exporting this dgn to IFC. This option is present on OBD, it has following option in export to IFC.This needs to be implemented in Mic...
    3 months ago in 3D Modeling 0 Needs review