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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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Retain cell levels when placing label

As indicated in a couple of forum posts, and reflected in Enhancement Request ... many users would like to see that the level of the original cell is retained when placing a cell with the "Place Label" tool. Currently it uses the level of the acti...
about 3 years ago in 2D Drawing 0 Future consideration

SaveAs DWG Options: Merge Reference settings

In the Safe As DWG/DXF Options dialog box there is a Reference section in the General tab and there is a References tab. Settings in one place can influence the other. It makes much more sense to have all Reference Settings in one place. The setti...
about 3 years ago in General 0 Needs review

Allow users to detach references when opening a file with the -o command line argument

Allow users to detach a problem reference when using the -o command line argument. The detach reference function doesn't work when using the -o command line argument. The -o command line argument is helpful to see if a problem reference is causing...
over 1 year ago in General 0 Needs review

View Window Background: Synch to Google Earth or Cesium browser view?

It would be great to be able to synch Mstn's View Window Background to the browsers' Google Earth or Cesium camera view. Mstn's View Window Background is already used to host raster data for Photomatching. It would be great to be able to synch the...
over 4 years ago in General 1 Needs review

Custom Tab Stop Settings

Since we have the ability to set custom tab stop widths, there should be a way to save those custom settings. Many years ago, we were able to save and recall Indent/Tab schemes, for reuse throughout a drawing. This was helpful because it allowed u...
almost 4 years ago in General 0 Needs review

Saved View Transient Graphic Elements

Saved View Transient Graphic Elements are currently classified as Construction Elements. I would like to suggest a different Class of Element for Saved View Elements and perhaps include Drawing markers or other transient graphics. [In a previous i...
10 months ago in General 0 Needs review

Dimension Styles Prefix/Suffix Character Limit

I don't see the point of a 1 character suffix or prefix. Practically all unit measurements except meters, Kelvin are at least 2 characters, mm, cm, °C,.. For me I needed to add "ca." prefix so it is three characters.
over 1 year ago in 2D Drawing 0 Needs review

Allow users to see the content of the DGNWS files

Now that we have worksets, which are linked to the DGNWS files. As a user we need to be able to see and edit what is retained in these DGNWS files. From time to time, I have found the DGNWS file is no longer working and I have to delete it to rese...
over 1 year ago in General 1 Will not implement

"View Independent 180" text option only rotates by 180°

Have a View Independent 180 text option. This will allow a text element to be placed at a desired angle, and only rotate by 180° if view rotation puts text at more than a 90° viewing angle on a sheet in a rotate view. This would maintain text read...
over 2 years ago in General 0 Needs review

Place Detail Callout - Circle Option

When selecting the circle or ellipse option in the Place Detail Callout dialog, have the clip boundary match the circle or ellipse. Currently the clip is always a rectangle.
about 3 years ago in 2D Drawing 1 Needs review