Not too sure about it being a feature or not, but you can convert "en masse" using the "Convert to Linestring" command. Can't remember which version of TBC it came in, but has been in for a while. Definitely sometime after v4.1 as that's around the time that I was asking for this command - specifically for bringing in an original design that was exported in .dxf to a data collector (before Siteworks would take .vcl files) and convert all the lines into linestrings so that the surface would build how I wanted it to (say every 10 or 2m or something) whne editing a design slightly.