I know that, by default, for legacy reasons, plain text, when placed as "View Independent" will rotate around the lower left-hand corner of the text element. This, however produces somewhat unpredictable and VERY unhelpful effects, as text appears...

It would be nice if the text editor works like the one in Autocad!We need an editor that acts more like a text real editor where we can type notes and paragraphs without needing to enter inhard returns.We also need to be able to have columns of te...

Can we have an option to help users manage a titleblock. Similar to the Axiom Title block tool. What I would like is a dialog that can help users place Titleblock data, revision text and then link this to an issue sheet. Ian Lapper

I'd love to have an option to use the text blocks for text backgrounds and background lines instead of having this optiononly for single lines in order to prevent behaviour as can be seen in the attached screenshot.That's not what I want: That's w...

An option I use to other applications ie Revit and AECOsim is the 'Hide in View' tool. Simply right click on an element and select Hide in View. That element is then hidden. There is an option to view Hidden items, where you can use the un-hide in...

Currently there does not seem to be a way to totally constrain an arc element (i.e. keep it from flipping to the inverse arc) If there was a tool that would constrain the arc length with a value or expression it seems like this could be accomplished.

MicroStation allows text to be justified in several ways. However, those abilities do not include decimal justification. MicroStation CONNECT includes Tables. Wouldn't it be great to have a decimal alignment option similar to Microsoft Excel and W...

Transfered from EAP Ideas list. Also discussed during the SS3 beta. Referencing by ACS matching would be very cool.Currently, I think you have to:1. In model to be referenced: Go to your 'Top' view, use Window Center and tentative to model 0,0,0. ...

Chamfer by Distances tool edit handles are opposite the sides they effect which is confusing and far less useful making it impossible to use Bentley's greatest tool (accudraw) to adjust a chamfer visually.

Fence stretching smart solids was common place in v8i, but the tool is clumsy at best with parametric solids it adds un-wanted nodes and clutters up the properties menu. I imagine some users like myself would prefer it just stretch the underlying ...