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Automatic Dimension Masking

Need to have the ability for dimension lines that cross other dimension lines be automatically masked. This has traditionally been done by adjusting extension lines, but with associative dimensions, this is not feasible. The order of dimension pla...
over 1 year ago in  4 Will not implement

Reports from Referenced iModels (i.dgn)

iModels are still a very powerful and important part of the Bentley Microstation based infrastructure software (like OpenBuildings, OpenRoads, OpenPlant, etc...) The problem is that you can't make reports using iModels, this means if we have someo...
2 months ago in Collaboration 0 Needs review

Import MS Office: Word docx

Mstn CE's Table tool does a great job of importing xlsx spreadsheets. It would be great to provide a similar tool for MS Word. A lot of requirements, notes etc are written in the usual Office, desktop publishing environment that need to be be refl...
14 days ago in General 0 Needs review

Make un-share a defaultable setting.

After extruding 2D parametric cell to a 3D solid in 2026, and then copying said 3D geometry. We have the option to un-share the profile rather then show/hide the profile to change the parametric variation. I would like the option to set a dgn vari...
16 days ago in 3D Modeling 0 Needs review

Allow Attaching Raster Image to CAD File with Alternate Origin/Orientation Option

Many modern image formats (like TIFF or JPEG) contain metadata fields that tell viewing software how to orient the image. By altering the Orientation tag via a tool like ExifTool you can tell programs to mirror or rotate the origin point without r...
16 days ago in Visualization 0 Needs review

Swept Path Analysis

I am asking that Bentley provide a Swept path analysis for MicroStation. Generally, we use MicroStation for preliminary analysis and look at truck turning to support the initial design. I would assume that ORD and other design software would use t...
about 2 months ago in General 1 Needs review

New View Toggle -> Align Grid to Coordinate System [ACS or Monument]

This is a new View Control toggle to align the grid [if display is enabled] with the Active Coordinate System, or the Global Coordinate System [Monument Point] It can be a sub-set of the existing Grid Toggle. Currently we use this KeyIn command, w...
16 days ago in 3D Modeling 1 Needs review

iModels should show the corresponding Issues

Using the Collaboration menu provides an option to attach an iModel. it would be helpful if any corresponding issue glyphs were also visible with the ability to filter. This would provide the designers a method to geographically find and consquent...
17 days ago in  1 Needs review
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CE - Home use license (NOT AVAILABLE IN CE)

All As per the 'Bentley View' saga/idea, we need to YOU to VOTE to push Bentley into making a HOME USE license available for ALL CONNECT software and NOW, not in 12-24 months time. As it stands, this is not possible and Bentley are telling users t...
over 5 years ago in Collaboration 4 Will not implement

Double click on a text linked to item type should open the "Edit Item" dialog (as it already does) but in addition it should select / high light the corrostonding value which was clicked.

When working with text driven by Item Type we miss the feature we have in the "Edit Tags" dialog where the text double clicked automatically brings focus to the value in question in the Edit Tags dialog. The same feature could be created for the "...
3 months ago in 2D Drawing 0 Needs review