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💡 The Most Useful Button in OBD Doesn't Exist Yet

During the OBD 26 presentation, we were encouraged to submit ideas, report recurring frustrations, and vote on improvements. Which immediately raised a question: If this page is so important, why do so few people use it? I've been working in OBD f...
18 days ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Planned

Energy Sim - Views

When using energy simulator to only run heat gain and loss calculations, it is unclear where the drawn rooms on any floor are looking at the plan view as the ceilings/floors above show up over the top. Can there be a way to see the drawn rooms wit...
14 days ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Needs review

Curtain wall profile

Curtain Wall profile: Curtain Wall profiles are not parametrically editable. Hence, raising an enhancement request to allow changes to the curtain wall profile using direct parameters, with more standard sizes to be added to the library/catalogue,...
12 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural Will not implement

Staircase - Label Co-ordinates

Label Co-ordinates not working on the staircase Hence raising an enhancement request to address this missing detail in OBD
12 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural Future consideration

Duplicated IFC properties when modifying default property value

When a default value is used in dg in the workspace and later you locally modify it in the file, Openbuilding shows the locally modified. (Expected) The issue is when you export to ifc, then both the default and the locally modify value are export...
11 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Needs review

Angular Grids

Angular Grids do not display in the sections. Currently, grids that are angled and not perpendicular to the slice do not show up in Sections or Elevations. This results in missing angular grids on the drawing sheets. Additionally, when elevations ...
12 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural Future consideration

Visibility States Range

Hi Bentley When OBD2026 is released we would love the option to use Visibility States to control the graphical outputs of BIM objects such as a wall We can set up a VS called Low Medium High within each we define how the wall will look in each sta...
2 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural Future consideration

Dataset cleanup tools

I have received a series of XML files and when I open OBD, I need to be able to clean up any duplicates, missing data, etc. ATM this is a painful exercise. Can we have a nice dialog that allows us to review the Dataset validation reports and actua...
about 2 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural Future consideration

Catalog Editor filter/search

Can we add an option within the catalog editor dialog to search for a part or instance. ATM if you are not 100% sure where the part or instance is defined it takes forever to locate it. Having a search option will make this process so much easier....
3 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural Future consideration

Improve the latency in software

In OpenBuildings Designer, introducing an intermediate buffer layer between the client application and the backend server can significantly enhance responsiveness and reduce perceived latency. This buffer—implemented as a caching or intermediary s...
6 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Will not implement