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Add ability to import/reference svg files

The Scalable Vector Graphics format has become a standard in the Internet. A lot of symbols and company logos are avaliable in svg format. It would be very usefule to be able to import or reference such files (not as raster references, but real sc...
about 2 years ago in General 2 Needs review

Online DGN viewer (2D)

There should be an online solution which would be simple and universal for new users to view 2D DGN contents without need to install anything and would be OS independent. Bentley View for example is too complicated and at same time too limited for...
almost 6 years ago in Collaboration 1 Will not implement

Display Rule Condition Name & Descriptions

Display rules are awesome but it's a challenge to create a new rule with a bunch of conditions to drive standard drawings because this information has to be passed out to the team via email and training. Simply adding a description to the rule wou...
almost 6 years ago in Visualization 0 Future consideration

PDF: Partial Rastering Option

For various reasons, vector-based output has not kept up with Mstn's DVs, transparency and other display styles available on screen.This has resulted in the need to 'rasterise' the drawings when printing. A limitation that has persisted since DVs ...
almost 6 years ago in General 3 Future consideration

Keep original curve element type on modify

There seems to be counter productive "improvement" in CONNECT edition that Point Curve elements are converted to B-spline element on modify. For example using Fence Clip, break element or extend line tools. This is unexpected and the resulted spli...
almost 6 years ago in 2D Drawing 3 Planned

Add transparency and filling with hatching to multilines

I really like using multilines but miss the opportunity to fill them automatically with hatching or adding transparency to the filling colour. It would also be ideal to be able to put the filling on a layer of its own, too. Maybe it's also an opti...
almost 6 years ago in 2D Drawing 2 Future consideration

Add an option in clip volume to be possible to change angles in Steps

Now we can place steps along our Clip Volume and it's fixed at 90º. This is great, but it could be even greater if we could change the angle along the step.This way we could acheved automaty section without manual labour to do a simple thing like ...
almost 6 years ago in 2D Drawing 1 Will not implement

Add "Invert selection" to context menu

Enhancement request: Sometimes I want to choose all elements of a drawing but a few. It would be way more handy to just select those few and then click on "Invert selection" (just like in Adobe Photoshop) instead of holding the STRG key and then d...
almost 6 years ago in General 2 Needs review

Add 'Hectares' and 'Thousand Square Feet' added to the Mstn Property Formatter schema

In the metric world, Hectares is a common way to measure land area. A Hectare is 10,000m². It's analogous to the Acre in the English way of measurement.The MicroStation Unit schema includes Hectare. However, Hectares is not included in the Mstn Pr...
almost 6 years ago in General 0 Future consideration

Reports should have a Query Language

MicroStation's Reports interface is a closed UI. That is, we can manipulate the UI to create a report definition, but that definition remains obscure. It's stored internally in a DGN file.It would be great to have a formal report definition langua...
almost 6 years ago in Collaboration 3 Needs review