If it has been possible to use a Named Boundary from a reference file to create drawings you could create a kind of "seed"-file for a project with all possible types of drawings in that specific project. Today when you reference in a file with Nam...

Within MS you can add a text box which is based around a rectangle. A lot of standards are now looking at other options to display the box behind the Text, ie an ellipse, triangle, rounded rectangle etc.

In the Properties the priority for an element is listed and can be set there. But if the element gets a priority from the level it's on, that priority is not visible. I know the priority can be calculated. But I would like to see the combined prio...

Now we can place steps along our Clip Volume and it's fixed at 90º. This is great, but it could be even greater if we could change the angle along the step.This way we could acheved automaty section without manual labour to do a simple thing like ...

A very old 2D drafting package I used 15-20 years had a tool call "delete dupes" and it was liken to the Microstation Delete Duplicates command under utilities. But it had an added bonus if any lines(or arcs)of the same weight, level, type etc. ov...

To analyze and create roadway lighting plans you must first use a program such as AGI32, and then move the design and reports manually into MicroStation/OpenRoads Designer. This capability should be incorporated directly into these programs.

There seems to be counter productive "improvement" in CONNECT edition that Point Curve elements are converted to B-spline element on modify. For example using Fence Clip, break element or extend line tools. This is unexpected and the resulted spli...

The report tool allows you to preview your table and even has filter options in the preview, but you can't place or export the filtered preview that you can create. I know aggregate counts are already an IDEA and have been requested, but the abili...

It would be fantastic if there was a setting or way to ignore specific line styles, colors or on specific levelswhen caching dynamic views in the Hidden Line settings dialog. Currently we have to jump through a lot of extra hoops to show center li...

Why are the Tool Settings so different between the Clip Volume and Clip Mask tools?In the Clip Mask Tool Settings the Show/Hide and Delete options are in the Tool Settings dialog which is very convenient. for the Clip Volume tool you have to go to...