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    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...
    almost 4 years ago in General 3 Will not implement

    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 5 years ago in 2D Drawing 0 Planned

    Hatch pattern preview window

    Would be nice to have a little preview window when selecting hatch patterns.
    almost 5 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 5 years ago in 2D Drawing 3 Future consideration

    Make display progress & percentage for point cloud import work for large files

    importing a big point cloud to the pod format can take quite a while. While the progress for smaller point cloud files is displayed with a progress bar in the status bar, it doesn't work for large files (several GB). You only get the wit cursor an...
    9 months ago in 3D Modeling 0 Needs review

    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 3 years ago in General 1 Future consideration

    Export sculptable terrain to LumenRT

    How to export sculptable terrain to LumenRT or VUE from Microstation? By sculptable I mean terrain which I can interact like paint or dig. 3SM or mesh export is not useful.
    2 months ago in Visualization 0 Needs review

    Python Assistant web version

    The demos that I'm seeing for the new Python Assistant are very intriguing to me, and I have a lot of ideas on some code it could generate for me. However, it may be a long time before my organization adopts an updated product that will have this ...
    2 months ago in Programming 1 Needs review

    Accudraw Shortcut Zen

    Working in 3d usually means navigating between three coordinate systems of planes*. View Stored reference planes (ACS) Element reference planes (faces, Cell local coord systems, edges, vertices) Accudraw's Compass provides a fourth dynamic referen...
    7 months ago in 3D Modeling 0 Needs review

    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 5 years ago in 2D Drawing 0 Planned