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Text: Decimal Justification

MicroStation allows text to be justified in several ways. However, those abilities do not include decimal justification. MicroStation CONNECT includes Tables. Wouldn't it be great to have a decimal alignment option similar to Microsoft Excel and W...
almost 5 years ago in 2D Drawing 2 Planned

Parametric Element Option to Move entire element to desired level

Moving a Parametric element to a new level doesn't move the underlying profiles and other features to that same level. This can result in the software appearing to show levels being used that do not appear to have anything on them. Very confusing ...
almost 5 years ago in 3D Modeling 1 Planned

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.
almost 2 years ago in 2D Drawing 4 Needs review

Hide in VIEW

An option I use to other applications ie Revit and AECOsim is the 'Hide in View' tool. Simply right click on an element and select Hide in View. That element is then hidden. There is an option to view Hidden items, where you can use the un-hide in...
almost 5 years ago in 2D Drawing 7 Planned

Parametric Cells - Constraints for element visibility

Currently there are no methods to turn on/off the visibility of elements/nested cells contained within a cell via a boolean constraint. In many cases this would be a useful feature to have, to avoid having to recreate all the possible permutations...
almost 5 years ago in 3D Modeling 3 Planned

BCF manager

I came across some threads on the OBD forums about BCF compatibility. There are already some ideas on the MS ideas portal as well, but all seem a bit fragmented. I think what we really need is a complete BCF manager, either developped by Bentley o...
over 3 years ago in Collaboration 7 Future consideration

View Independent text that rotates around Justification

I know that, by default, for legacy reasons, plain text, when placed as "View Independent" will rotate around the lower left-hand corner of the text element. This, however produces somewhat unpredictable and VERY unhelpful effects, as text appears...
almost 5 years ago in 2D Drawing 0 Planned

Hatch pattern preview window

Would be nice to have a little preview window when selecting hatch patterns.
almost 5 years ago in 2D Drawing 0 Future consideration

Tool or setting to toggle text/dimensions/notes background on/off

MicroStation needs a simpler way to turn text background on or off in text, dimensions and notes.We do not always use Background, so we do not have it set on by default. When we do need it, it requires a special trip into the text styles dialog to...
almost 5 years ago in 2D Drawing 3 Future consideration

Fix print organizer with Projectwise to cache references rather than redownload

This relates to all versions of microstation/openroads/openbridge/etc that use print organizer with a projectwise integrate project. When printing from a PSET, if there are multiple dgns in a pset that have the same references, print organizer wil...
9 months ago in General 1 Needs review