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...

When compressing a file, I'd like to be able to turn on or off all options with one click, not manually select/deselect all the compress options.

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...

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 ...

In the Place Cell tool settings there is an Association option to associate the cell to an element. Placing line terminator cells need to have the option to associate the terminator cell to the line as well.

As a MicroStation user, I would like to be able to right-click on a parametric cell and select a "Place Again" option that will open the Place Parametric Cell dialog with the same cell selected and the same variation and settings as per the select...

In OBD Label Coordinate there is the option to choose "ACS" or "Global origin". Please add an option for the "GCS" so that X/Y/Z values can be displayed in geographical coordinates.

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. ...