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Combined move, rotate, and scale transform

An advanced transform tool that can combine Rotate, Scale, Move, and optionally Mirror simultaneously in a single operation. The user first selects the element(s) to which the transform is applied, then draws 3 or more transformation lines where t...
about 1 year ago in 2D Drawing 0 Needs review

Rebuild the Step import/export

Importing and exporting step files in microstation is hit or miss at best. For best results we have to import step files into autocad save them to dwg and then import the dwg into microstation. We also have better results exporting to dwg and then...
over 4 years ago in 3D Modeling 0 Needs review

LineStyle dialog with a Filter

LineStyle dialog should have a Filter combobox on the top of the list to filter according to: Used styles (although we can do this from Element Selection if previously we "select all") styles of the drawing. styles not used (if we use the Compress...
about 5 years ago in General 0 Needs review

Improve visualization engine

In OpenUtilities Substation is very usual when you are rotating a 3D model, it disappear from the screen, making you obliged to zoom out to see the model again. If you zoom in, the model would disappear again, so it is difficult to work. My idea i...
about 1 year ago in Visualization 0 Needs review

Thematic pages from OUS high quality PDF's

The software OpenUtilities Substation has a function to create Thematic Pages, which creates specific visualizations for the designs you have made. When trying to print those pages without using rasterized option, the Microstation printing engine ...
about 1 year ago in Visualization 0 Needs review

Change All Element Attributes and Properties by Element

About 30 years a go I wrote a UCM macro do do this and figured at some time Bentley would have it included as standard but still waiting. We have a Change Element Attributes function that allows us to click an element, and when we then click secon...
about 5 years ago in General 4 Future consideration

Export setting to DGNLIB

While working in a file you often have definitions that you may want to also use in other files. Or you get a file from third party and need to use some of the settings across the project.When you have dgnlibs and need to add particular settings l...
almost 6 years ago in Collaboration 1 Future consideration

Compress - Add options for deleting unused fonts/shared cell definitions

In trying to delete "unused" levels, Compress does not delete unused shared cell definitions, so often this must be done separately. Also, unused fonts are also not a Compress option. I like to get my files as "clean" as possible, particularly whe...
almost 6 years ago in General 0 Needs review

Double-click in the "Cell Library" list of cell must be enhanced

Hi,When you are using the "place cell" tool, you could use the button [...] to open the "Cell Library" dialog box. You can see all the cell in the list and if you double-click on one of them, the field "Active Cell" is filled whit the cell name in...
almost 6 years ago in General 1 Future consideration

baking in 3D pdf.

Would be nice to have shadows baking into 3D pdf, as was previously possible with Ray Trace, and Particle Trace.
almost 6 years ago in Visualization 5 Future consideration