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Pick center of text field, not only of the individual lines

When moving texts I often want to place them right in the center of another object, e. g. a rectangle.When manipulating objects like circles, ellipses, rectangles, polygons etc. I can pick their very center. If texts span over more than one line I...
almost 5 years ago in 2D Drawing 14 Already exists

Add reference point to „copy and increment text“

When using "copy and increment text" I can only choose a reference point within the text itself but not an external reference point to place it e.g. always in the same distance from another element. Would be nice to be able to pick a reference poi...
almost 5 years ago in 2D Drawing 0 Future consideration

CSV or Comma De-limited Text import TO and FROM Microstation Connect Properties

I have just finished another large project taking advantage of the new 'Item Types' and 'Display Rules' functionality, I think that this new functionalityis oneof the best things to come out of Bentley in a long time. The only problem isthat it re...
almost 5 years ago in Collaboration 2 Will not implement

Better export options for dgn

Currently when exporting to dgn (merged references) the options are limited and as such certain settings and appearances cannot be retained.For example, placing saved views onto sheets used setting from the reference file, yet when merged the sett...
almost 5 years ago in Collaboration 0 Future consideration

Items browser saved seach definitions from dgnlib or configuration variable

The items browser has the ability to save advanced searches to external file(s). We would like to have these searches available through configuration variables or a dgnlib so they are avalable in the workspace. This is a similar behavior to all th...
almost 2 years ago in Collaboration 1 Needs review

Place label tool, place text favorites directly and honor Dimension Style Notes settings

The place label tool should be able to choose a text favorite rather than only place from cells. It should be almost the same as the place notes tool. but instead of showing the text editor like the place notes tool does it should be able to simpl...
12 months ago in General 0 Needs review

I am a Composition file

In Reference Manager, create a new toggle that can be applied to a reference file that designates that a reference is a composition model so that the composition model level control is never broken unless toggled OFF. Toggle ON = force level overr...
over 1 year ago in General 0 Needs review

Place Element - Custom Linestyle Scale by-Element

Hello Bentley, Element Linestyle scales can already be applied and modified on a per-Element basis. This idea is to add a tick-box in the place Element palette when a custom linestyle is selected and to allow the user to enable and apply a scale t...
over 1 year ago in 2D Drawing 0 Needs review

Convert nested Cells to Ref attachments

Mstn seems to have persistent problems and lack of support for nested Cells. It would be good to have a command to converted nested Cells to Ref attachments. The converted Cells would be added as internal models to the dgn. Option to hide in Ref...
over 1 year ago in General 2 Future consideration

[3D linestyles] Option to untwist 3D linestyles

The so called 3D custom linestyles ar placed in same rotation as active view. There is no option to unrotate such lines under "modify linestyle atributes" tool.
12 months ago in 3D Modeling 0 Needs review