Most other tools (Move, copy, rotate etc) have a 'Use Fence' option on the tool settings. Only Delete makes you go to the fence tools to select.This may have been a good safeguard before UNDO but causes extra steps now.

It would be very handy to be able to turn display of all references in a drawing on or off with a view attribute toggle in order to quickly view live info without reference clutter. Turning multiple references on or off using the reference dialogu...

If you have used other design related software, some of them have an amazing option called View template. Basically you can setup a view template ie levels on/off, view attributes, Level overrides etc. and apply them to may files/views. I know we ...

In the V8i version, dialog boxes can be resized by modifying the font size. Currently in the Connect version the dialog boxes are adjusted to the font size of windows that does not allow less than 100%. This functionality would have to be re-imple...

Display Rules are great, but working with that dialog can be a bit tedious. It would help a lot if we could import/export display rules from/to CSV or XML format so that we can make edits in Excel or some other application. I can also see a big be...

A PDF with layers contains a Tree Hierarchy when viewed in Acrobat Viewer and other PDF Viewers. But within MicroStation, the Layers are presented in a flat list. This makes it much harder to determine which layer names control which displays. Mic...

Parametric cells are great, shared cells are great using them in practice isn't so great.Parametric cells are stuck on the level, color, line weight and any other attribute associated with the "shared" cell within the file. So to save file space i...

Possibly not feasible or easy but having a version of the point analyze tool from OpenRoads for Bentley View would be really helpful, especially for terrains to get an elevation and slope at any point. It doesn't need to place text like OpenRoads,...

Line styles resources when used in a DGN are copied into the native file similar to Text & Dimension Styles. However, unlike Text & Dimension Styles, there is no unified utility that delineates available styles and their controls and wheth...

In the MicroStation V8i version there were the "componentview" keyins. Our customers in the automotive industry and in pipeline construction use this intensively, e.g. to be able to highlight pipelines in transparent models or to be able to displa...