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    Add settings to the Change Dimension Dialog

    I'd like to suggest a Change Dimension dialog more in line with the Change Text Attributes dialog - with a number of "popular' options that can be set, independently of dimension style. Very often, in the course of revising a detail, I need to cha...
    almost 6 years ago in General 0 Future consideration

    [V8i] can we have "Select by attributes" perform within a fence boundary or a portion of drawing?

    We have 2 or more drawings within a DGN and using "Select by attributes" to filter out elements. Is it possible that "Select by Attributes" do the search within one drawing / fenced area?
    almost 6 years ago in 2D Drawing 2 Will not implement

    [Text styles]Bring back Text justification=None

    Justification=None which was available in earlier versions is gone and now opening older files it shows as Invalid. According to Bentley: in previous versions of MicroStation, the dropdown for the Justification property included "None" as an optio...
    almost 6 years ago in General 0 Needs review

    Cleanup update - Distinguish elements with or without fill

    We continue to get duplicates where shouldn't be any (works the same in v8i).1 - Draw a rectangle, a shape, a circle, whatever;2 - Copy the rectangle (or your element) to the exact same location;3 - Change one of the elements to get a fill shape;4...
    almost 6 years ago in General 0 Needs review

    CE - Select by text

    Add option search by text string using wildcards in select by.
    almost 6 years ago in General 0 Future consideration

    Better logging for WMS issues

    I think Bentley could make a better logging option for WMS errors as the "old camera" error checking. Replacing detailed xml error with camera picture is not a good approach. In WMS requests Bentley desktop apps explicitly require to have errors r...
    almost 6 years ago in Collaboration 2 Future consideration

    Enable ACS to be read from dgnlib

    It must be possible to allow reading and updating of ACS's from project dgnlib resource library.It is very time consuming and cumbersome having to continually import ACS definitions from other files>models. Ideally I would like to be able to de...
    almost 6 years ago in General 3 Future consideration

    Constraint User Comment/Description

    It's painfully difficult sometimes to go find that 1 dimension you need to adjust in a properties list. I know i can target the dimension myself and select it from the visual side in my drawing space but parametric modeling feels like 3D coding. T...
    almost 6 years ago in 2D Drawing 1 Future consideration

    Item Types Properties Window

    When I have an element that has multiple item types of various complexity, it often takes a long time for the properties window to open so I can view or edit the item types, sometimes resulting in the program crashing. I think it would be really n...
    almost 3 years ago in General 0 Needs review

    Support for ACAD Dynamic Blocks

    It seems like Dynamic Blocks have been reversed engineered and are becoming mainstream in the ACAD clone world... with IntelliCAD, Graebert, BricsCAD and now ZWCAD (Flexiblocks). It would be great to extend Mstn's great DWG interop functionality b...
    almost 3 years ago in Collaboration / General 1 Planned