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    change direction of multiple elements

    I'd like to be able to select multiple elements, then choose CHANGE DIRECTION, then click desired element to flip or all (holding CTRL). Just as it was possible in V8iSS10 and previous. Currently (in CE15) I cannot pre-select elements, because CHA...
    over 4 years ago in General 4 Already exists

    Filled Visible Edges in "Cached" view

    The fact that element fill in display style "Filled Visible Edges" only works when Visible Edge setting is set to "Dynamic" is really annoying! For example making Elevation drawings wanting to use a simple fill on steel SW panels or window/door fr...
    almost 4 years ago in 2D Drawing 0 Needs review

    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 ...
    9 months ago in 3D Modeling 1 Needs review

    Enhance the "ByCell" functionality to work with Graphic cells

    I would like to see Bentley make the ByCell functionality that currently only works with "Shared Cells" also work with Graphic cells. It would allow the user to place Graphic Cells containing Tags or Items to be re-symbolized at placement time. Yo...
    10 months ago in General 0 Needs review

    Ability to change Accuracy in Item Type manager

    Currently, you cannot change accuracy from 2 decimals to 3 decimals in item types properties for the number property in the Item type manager so there should be some settings to change the accuracy so that it will reflect in property definition pa...
    over 2 years ago in General 0 Future consideration

    Categorize Display Styles

    Provide categories (folders/subfolders) for display styles so they can be grouped and not all show in one dialog listing
    about 3 years ago in General 0 Future consideration

    Configuration explorer & AI

    Hi Bentley Can you enhance the configuration explorer to use AI. my line of thought is to use AI to scan all the paths and to check each one is valid v the available drives and folders on a PC It can also be used to find paths, edit paths, and hel...
    10 months ago in General 0 Needs review

    Bring back recently used linestyles

    In V8i, the custom linestyle pulldown in the attributes toolbar would "remember" that last few custom linestyles you had chosen. This was very useful! Apparently that capability has been removed from CONNECT. Why, I don't know...Please restore the...
    over 2 years ago in General 0 Future consideration

    Enable Bing Maps as drape material

    We can currently make drape materials from any image that is imported in the raster manager. Through raster manager we can also attach a Geolocated BING map background. Please allow this map to be assigned as the drape material to enable draping o...
    over 4 years ago in Visualization 0 Needs review

    Bentley View for iPad

    We maintain a MicroStationV8i license to do our design work. Our "desktop" employees outside the design group use Bentley View to view 3D models, however our folks in the field, whom use iPad's to view documents and otherwise cannot view our 3D mo...
    about 3 years ago in Visualization 1 Will not implement