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    Accudraw 2.0

    Accudraw has stood still feature-wise for three decades. It's time for a re-boot. Rob Brown, the original patent holder has offered to lead this effort https://patents.justia.com/patent/5784068 New functionality to be determined.
    9 months ago in General 2 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...
    3 months ago in Collaboration 1 Needs review

    Have a "View Independent" option for hatch patterns

    Would be nice if hatched areas could also rotate automatically based on the view rotation. I would like to see a toggle for hatch patterns similar to the "View Independent" option that's availble for text. From a roadway design perspective, this w...
    9 months ago in 2D Drawing 0 Needs review
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    File Open options > Do not load references files

    With the increase in data being added to a DGN files, the file sizes are increasing, more so with the huge DWG files that are coming about.This all relates to a time it takes to open Bentley applications. It would be good to have open dialog optio...
    almost 5 years ago in Collaboration 5 Future consideration

    Creating Entities by Best Fit

    Tool to find best fit lines, rectangles, arcs, half-ellipses, circles or ellipses through points. Regression analysis. Similar to ACAD - https://help.autodesk.com/view/CIV3D/2025/ENU/?guid=GUID-0F64B4E9-A943-4842-B883-0FF5297B101C
    about 1 month ago in 2D Drawing 0 Needs review

    Table option Change direction bottom to top

    I want the TABLE tool to offer us an option to change direction so that the table feeds from the bottom upwards. This would be great for revision text Ian
    about 2 months ago in General 1 Needs review

    Place Table form Excel should honor cell number format

    If the cell in Excel is set to a Number format such as Number with the number of Decimal places set, then it should be displayed as such in the Table in MicroStation. i.e. With number format set to 2 decimal places Excel Current behavior Sh...
    3 months ago in General 1 Already exists

    Bentley Learn: Python + Python Assistant Training

    It would be good to have some material on Python. Probably needs to be multiple levels: Beginnner: no previous macro writing experience. Intermediate: some previous VBA experience. Guidance on how to port, rewrite in python. Examples of using ...
    4 months ago in Programming 4 Needs review

    Import and/or reference Revit models

    Just referencing the geometry would be fine.
    almost 5 years ago in Collaboration 9 Already exists

    Add search bar for references to easily find the reference you need

    Like the feature in the level manager, a search bar should be added into the reference manager, hierarchy tree of level manager and level display manager so that users can find the reference they need within a sea of references for larger files.
    over 1 year ago in General 0 Needs review