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  • Add a CreateCellInstance method to place a Cell from a Cell Library

    Jon Summers
    • Under Review on
    • API-Managed
    • 8 Comments
    There is no way in .NET to place a new cell instance by reading a cell definition from a cell library. When creating a new cell instance, there is a lot of unseen work involved in copying a cell definition. In addition to the graphic elements, there...

  • Continued SDK Documentation Improvements

    Robert Hook
    • Future Consideration on
    • Documentation
    • 4 Comments
    What we would really like to see in upcoming MicroStation SDK documentation...

  • VBA: Event Handlers for Fence and Selection Set

    Jon Summers
    • New on
    • API-Interpreted
    • 0 Comments
    Can I suggest that VBA includes event handlers for Fence and Selection Set?

  • Invasion of unwanted colors

    Oto
    • Under Review on
    • General
    • 3 Comments
    After using any of colorbook colors it is not possible to get rid of this color afterwards. For example if color white is used from colorbook then all elements which previously used RGB white are changed to colorbook. Even if element is deleted the color...

  • Define EC schema naming best practice

    Jan Šlegr
    • Under Review on
    • Documentation
    • 0 Comments
    Idea In my opinion there should be an official recommendation / best practice information how custom EC schema should be named. It can be also applied to Item Types when created as a part of developed applications. Justification I have thought about...

  • [ CONNECT DgnPlatform .NET API ] Add method to set GrphicGroup to ElementPropertiesSetter class

    Jan de Pater
    • New on
    • Not categorized
    • 0 Comments
    While ElementPropertiesGetter class has a property to retrieve the GraphicGroup of an element, the ElementPropertiesSetter seems to lack a way of applying it to an element.

  • Item Types: Foreign Key or Relationship

    Jon Summers
    • New on
    • Not categorized
    • 1 Comment
    I have two Item Type definitions: Area Features and Doors . I can tag an office, for example, as an Area Feature ; and I can tag a door cell as a Door . Here's an illustration... Now I want to relate one to the other. You can see that Door 102 belongs...

  • Expose PDF Layers in the API to Allow On/Off Capability

    caddcop
    • New on
    • Not categorized
    • 1 Comment
    When working with PDF Rasters, it is often necessary turn Layers on and off within the PDF. Being able to automate this is essential. Large organization may have hundreds of PDF's that can be reused as supplemental data and enhancing productivity by...

  • [CONNECT MicroStationAPI] MstnPropertyFormatter schema needs hectares

    Jon Summers
    • New on
    • Not categorized
    • 0 Comments
    The MstnPropertyFormatter schema provides formatting information for many units. That list includes acres for measuring large areas in the US. The analogous unit in the rest-of-world is the hectare . 1 ha = 10,000 m 2 . The absence of hectare in the...

  • MicroStationAPI CONNECT Help Documentation: Provide #include file paths

    Jon Summers
    • New on
    • Not categorized
    • 0 Comments
    The MicroStationAPI help document lists classes and functions. The class description usually mentions the relevant header file(s). For example, DgnECInstance Struct Reference #include <DgnECInstance.h> However, those include files are not in a flat...

  • MicroStation CONNECT SDK rcomp improvement

    Peter Wu
    • Under Review on
    • Not categorized
    • 0 Comments
    The RCOMP tool is used to compile traditional .R files to rsc files and finally to .MA file holding the resources (strings, toolbars, dialogs). RCOMP has always reading .R/.H files as MBCS (as it would complain about unsupported characters in codepage...

  • OpenRoadsDesignerNET Help Document

    Mark Stefanchuk
    • New on
    • Not categorized
    • 0 Comments
    Please provide a .Net version of the OpenRoadsDesignerAPI help document? Looks like Bentley.GeometryNet.chm is not BentleyGeometryNEt.chm, right? Is BentleyGeometryNet.chm found in ORD CONNECT SDK doc folder might be the same as Bentley.GeometryNET...

  • C# VB.Net Addin Command Table Syntax Documentation

    Mark Stefanchuk
    • New on
    • Not categorized
    • 0 Comments
    Any chance we can get some documentation for CommandTable.xml syntax? As a minimum can you publish an article to provide, attribute and value choices for Options. Hidden = "true" or Hidden = "false", Required = "true" Required = "false". These seem...

  • Item Type Property: provide method to set Read-Only in schema definition

    Jon Summers
    • New on
    • Not categorized
    • 3 Comments
    An Item Type property has several attributes that can be set, along these lines... CustomPropertyP p1 = ecItemType.AddProperty (L"prop-name", false); if (nullptr != p1) { p1->SetType (prop.CustomPropertyType ()); p1->SetIsArray (false); p1->SetDefaultValue...

  • XML Command Syntax Checker for MicroStation CONNECT

    Jon Summers
    • New on
    • API-Managed
    • 2 Comments
    MicroStation V8i SDK provides ustnxom.exe , used to check the syntax of XML command tables. The command table structure in CONNECT is subtly different to its predecessor. It's easy to make minor spelling or case errors when writing a Commands.xml file...

  • Microstation dialogs filterString

    Oto
    • New on
    • API-Native
    • 4 Comments
    Add option for mdlDialog_fileOpen, mdlDialog_fileCreate and others to accept filterString with extension and custom explanation of file type. Similar to GetOpenFileNameA(comdlg32.dll). MS dialogs are preffered because it has file and directory history...

  • ReportDefinitionNode::RemoveAllAssociations() should be moved to the published API

    Jon Summers
    • Under Review on
    • Not categorized
    • 0 Comments
    If any Tables have been placed with associations to a Report definition, they will not be cleaned up when removing a Report definition by DeleteNode() . If the user tries to refresh a Table 's contents from its associated Report definition, the refresh...

  • Split OpenRoadsDesignerAPI Help Document and MicroStationAPI Help Document

    Mark Stefanchuk
    • New on
    • Not categorized
    • 0 Comments
    OpenRoadsDesignerAPI includes the MicroStationAPI documentation. Can we split these into two documents? I understand why you might want to combine them, but it would be easier to find OpenRoads items if we didn't also have to sift through the MicroStationAPI...

  • [CONNECT C++] CurveVector::SetBoundaryType

    Jon Summers
    • Under Review on
    • Not categorized
    • 0 Comments
    Make CurveVector::SetBoundaryType() a public method in the MicroStationAPI.

  • MicroStation CONNECT Help Documentation: Provide version information

    Jon Summers
    • Under Review on
    • Not categorized
    • 0 Comments
    The MicroStation V8 i MDL Function Manual help doc. provides version information for each function. That is, we can read the version of MicroStation where that function was first introduced to the API. With the MicroStation CONNECT SDK, that version...

  • Undo operations when a Reference has "Activate Status"= Write Locked (we have to do zoom)

    Joan Martínez Serra
    • New on
    • General
    • 0 Comments
    I think it is a bug: When a Reference has "Activate Status" column to "Write Locked" (stick icon) and then we press "Undo" button to undo operation, we have to do Zoom In or OUT in the view to show the changes. Does not update the view. Also, when...

  • Apply print style as display style for sheet

    Brenan Sellers
    • New on
    • General
    • 0 Comments
    It would be nice to be able to see what the sheet will look like without having to go through the print preview. If there was a way to tie the print style to a display style then we could see how sheets would print will working in the sheet model.

  • Common Help section to cover all available languages

    Sunand Sandurkar
    • New on
    • Not categorized
    • 0 Comments
    It'll be great to see a single, common Help section per feature that covers API in all available languages. For example, a section on DgnFile class that describes C++ API, C# API and COM API of DgnFile in one place. The conceptual description of DgnFile...

  • AutoCAD properties are lost after converting AutoCAD to Microstation, create tool to retain properties in microstation format

    Hrushikesh Risbud
    • New on
    • Migration
    • 1 Comment
    I am looking for options to convert AutoCAD to microstation retraining the drawing properties like blocks in AutoCAD are editable blocks in microstation, line and text properties in AutoCAD are retained in micro station.

  • Bentley Social Distancing App for Construction Crews?

    dominic SEAH
    • New on
    • Not categorized
    • 1 Comment
    A lot of complaints and worries about how construction crews are not subject to lockdown and vulnerable due to need to work in close proximity. How long would it take to write an app that tracks proximity between mobile phones on site? Building sites...
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