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    Place Cell with horizontal text

    I want to be able to place a cell at any angle and for the text to ALWAYS be horizontal. There is an existing enhancement request #663930 dating back to 2014 for this, but we need votes as always, to get Bentley's attention. Ian
    about 3 years ago in General 3 Future consideration

    Explode Linesrtyle to base Elements

    The feature to drop/explode LineStyles and Custome LineStyles to base Elements insteam of dropping to a continuous linestyle.
    7 months ago in General 0 Needs review

    Message Center - Enhanced Info

    It would be good to allow the user to get more info. For example: Element IDs - for example, if the user uses the Measure tool to measure the angle between two lines, the Element IDs would be displayed, allowing the user to copy and paste. If ...
    4 months ago in General 0 Future consideration

    Platform Utility Kit SDK - English Version

    Include the PUK SDK in the base install. This looks like a very useful tool to assist users, resellers to showcase and provide useful productivity tools using Mstn and its verticals. See previous discussion.
    4 months ago in General 0 Needs review

    Short Term Tool History

    Create a short-term memory within tools to see the last few uses of it and quickly jump between recent settings used.
    about 2 years ago in  1 Needs review

    Config file directive to log message in debug output

    Similar to %echo a directive (perhaps %debugmsg) that allows inserting information/comments into the debugging log output. %echo echos data to the console window so it pops-up for all users, the new directive would only put info in the debug outpu...
    almost 2 years ago in General 1 Needs review

    Tables should be able to show graphics as well as text

    Could we have a new table class DgnTable? The CONNECT TextTable displays only text elements. It would be useful to include graphics as well. That would provide a native solution for, say, a Legend.
    over 5 years ago in 2D Drawing / General 3 Planned

    Import .kmz and .kml

    OpenRoads needs the ability to directly import .kmz and .kml files. Currently the only way to do this to convert the file into a shape (.shp) file using some other type of software which is very tedious, time consuming and virtually impossible if ...
    about 1 year ago in  2 Already exists

    Add jog / break to dimension line

    As a user I would like to be able to define a symbol that makes a dimension line appear jogged or broken and have it appear as part of the dimension element. Note ISO 129-1:2018 Dimension lines shall be indicated as continuous narrow lines accordi...
    almost 2 years ago in 2D Drawing 1 Needs review

    Add Slope Readout to Measure Distance by Points

    Add slope display in % and rise over run to the Measure Distance Display. The value would show the slope between the last two data points in the case of multiple point selections
    almost 6 years ago in 2D Drawing 0 Future consideration