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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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Align Selected Elements, or Design, to Other ACS

This is a move, or Align command to align selected active model elements, references or the entire Design model content to another ACS. In some situations, there can be multiple ACS Triads in the Design Model 2D/3D and the need to align content or...
6 months ago in 3D Modeling 0 Needs review

Want a way to use sheet index sheet property as a text favorite in annotation

want a way to create annotation on a sheet that cross references information from a sheet in the index. for example, a label could say, "See sheet R-34 for detail". If the sheet changes number (e.g. from R-34 to R35 the label would update).
about 3 years ago in  2 Future consideration

Place Text -> Assign Style -> Font By-Style Lock

Placing or editing text font behaviour. For whatever reason the font never seems to lock in with the text style when I choose or change Text Style. Currently when I am in the text editor there is no enforcement of the font to adhere to the text st...
26 days ago in 2D Drawing 1 Needs review

Zoom Option on Right-Click from Report Preview

When selecting an item from the Report Preview and right-clicking, I would like a Direct Zoom option immediately.
about 2 months ago in General 0 Needs review

Line Style Editor - User Interface Redesign

Overhaul the current Line Style Editor user interface. It is very non-intuitive and difficult to work with, which discourages both CAD administrators and the more tech savvy CAD users from creating custom line styles. Changes to the functionality ...
over 2 years ago in General 2 Planned

CE - Select Similar

I am constantly asked by users that come over from ACAD/Revit, if there is an option to Select Similar. I have to tell them ... not as such, we have the Selection tool in expanded mode. it would be nice to havea right click menu to allow users to ...
about 5 years ago in General 9 Future consideration

export google 3D to FBX

can we have an option to EXPORT a google 3d view with a reference file(s) to FBX. We generally use an external rendering tool to produce high end renders is blender or 3DMax/. having spent time setting up the MS view with google 3d and linking in ...
7 months ago in Visualization 0 Needs review

Bentley Learn: Python + Python Assistant Training

It would be good to have some material on Python. Probably needs to be multiple levels: Beginnner: no previous macro writing experience. Intermediate: some previous VBA experience. Guidance on how to port, rewrite in python. Examples of using ...
6 months ago in Programming 4 Needs review

Dimension total length along element (chained & non linear elements)

I'd like to suggest to implement the ability to dimension the length of non linear elements that can be measured. example screenshot shows a dimension I had to create manually.
about 2 years ago in 2D Drawing 4 Needs review

Polar Array - Add radius option

I have been trying to create a spiral Stair and I need to rotate a solid along a spiral curve but using a radius. This is currently no available. I know I can use OBD's Stair tool, but the client doent have this as an option. MS needs to be able t...
27 days ago in 3D Modeling 0 Needs review