Need to be able to search for text etc in multiple dgns from MS Explorer. This was possible with Dgn iFilter in V8i. Doesn't seem to be available for CE. Apparently the Indexing service has also been removed.
It would be good to provide robust means to allow fast searches for text and other annotation in dgns. Probably will need indexing to avoid having to start from scratch every time.
With AI, pretty much all the major authoring apps have LLM Copilots that aim to boost drawing, CAD drafter productivity. Basic word search would be expected. Searching based on text matching should have some smarts to recognise synonyms etc like Google etc in addition to old wildcards. Should also support regex.
Looking for Cells or components in libraries would also benefit. The drawings will have tables and notes that provide a lot more 'context' compared to the Cell file name.
Relying on users to manually tag or structure the information so that less sophisticated searching methods is wishful thinking, likely to lead to losses given the competition.
See also discussion ... and MSR-I-2255
It was announced at last years YII that BIC, ProjectWise would support AI searches.
"Bentley also announced new AI-powered search capabilities in ProjectWise, part of Bentley Infrastructure Cloud, designed to significantly reduce the time users spend searching for information. "
Mstn Copilot is also positioned to search, parse the dgn as part of AI-led productivity boosts.
It would be good to reboot and AI-enhance the old DgniFilter / Indexing service in Mstn at the same time. Presumably, Copilot would be indexing the dgn contents using the Mstn MCP, not just punting, uploading the dgn to an external agent?
Interesting announcement from X1 Search which has published a MCP. I think X1 can index dwg's. It would be good to collab to provide similar functionality for dgns and iTwins? I can see being able to progress this much more quickly. A lot of overlap, as users will need to search across multiple file formats to provide the AI the needed 'context', basic RAG type taxonomy, knowledge graphs needed to support Skills, Memories etc.