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The Bentley Ideas Portals are intended to offer users the opportunity to share ideas more directly and conveniently with our product development teams for consideration. There is no longer a need to raise a technical support ticket in order to pro...
PINNED Add measuring/pick distance tool in parametric solid and variables tools
As a MicroStation modelling user, I would like the capability of filling the Distance field by picking two points (or distance between other elements) from within the tool, so that I can be much quicker in creating solids and other elements where ...

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Export to DWG in Survey Feet

Please enhance Microstation to allow for an export from DGN to DWG in proper Survey Feet units. Currently, there is not a dedicated Survey Foot/Inch option to export with, so users are resigned to use Master Units and Sub Units. But when this opti...
about 1 year ago in General 1 Needs review

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...
about 2 years ago in Collaboration 1 Needs review

Enable material level overrides in references

through level manager I can set materials to by level and overrides, but only to live files. please enable this to apply to references also.Additionally, a reference setting toggle to turn on/off applied materials would be very beneficial. as we a...
about 5 years ago in Visualization 2 Future consideration

Add recently used commands to RMB popup menu

Since the same tools are often used in quick succession it would be helpful to make the five most recently used tools available in the Right Mouse Button menu. This would exclude view commands.Entries would be at top similar to picture.
about 5 years ago in General 2 Already exists

FREE Academic licenses for Bentley applications

AllWhy does Bentley still charge for Academic licenses when other software vendors i.e. Autodesk!!!!!. We need to get students using Bentley software at schools/Universities etc. I know Bentley have an academic program but the fact is the students...
about 5 years ago in Collaboration 5 Already exists

Item Type properties should have the option to allow null values

When youattach an Item Type the integer values can be null or empty if there are no default value.If you add some value to such a property you can not clear it since that is not a valid numer. It would be great is numbers couldallow empty values. ...
about 5 years ago in Collaboration 1 Future consideration

Scale or rotate only the part of an element within the fence

This existed a long time ago as a variation of Fence Stretch, and I'd like to see it reinstated.I'd like to see an option to fence PART of a complex element (Line String, Complex Chain, Cell, etc.) and perform scale or rotate only only the portion...
about 5 years ago in 2D Drawing 0 Future consideration

Add "Z increment" option to move/copy parallel

Move/copy parallel allows a distance to be specified (in the x,y plane). We spend a lot of time using this tool, however, we also need to change the elevation. An option to do this incorporated into the tool would save a lot of time using other me...
about 5 years ago in 2D Drawing 1 Will not implement

Data Clean up Merge Lines/Arcs

A very old 2D drafting package I used 15-20 years had a tool call "delete dupes" and it was liken to the Microstation Delete Duplicates command under utilities. But it had an added bonus if any lines(or arcs)of the same weight, level, type etc. ov...
about 5 years ago in 2D Drawing 0 Will not implement

Scaling of Linestyle in Display Rules

Display rules are a brilliant addition to Microstation and being able to chose different linestyles colors etc is great but we have anumber of line styles that require a scale to them, can this be added to to the dialog boxes when you chose the li...
about 5 years ago in 2D Drawing 0 Future consideration