[quote user="Alan C."]Do you happen to know what can cause an object to have the "New" property when one created seconds ago on a new dgn file does not?[/quote] When you create an element many things may happen immediately afterwards, propelled by MicroStation internals about which we know nothing. If you were to place a primitive line element, say, with default symbology settings of a standard colour, line style in range 1..8 and width in range 1..32 then the element might end up as 'new'. But as soon as you do something marginally non-default then MicroStation may modify the element immediately and the 'new' flag is turned off. What counts as 'marginally non-default'? I can't be sure, but it might be, for example, using a line-style that is not in the 1..8 range, or if a text element then a text style is added. Either of those would cause data attributes to be added to the new element, rendering it 'modified'. As you've observed, 'new' doesn't inform us very much. It's a legacy flag that might have been useful in more innocent days (MicroStation/J) or earlier (IGDS).
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