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Allow Geometry to be constrained by Floor,

A heavily requested feature is to allow objects to be constrained by floor plane. If the floor level adjusts the geometry adjusts. Reference planes with object associations (Speedikon GAP analysis)
about 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural / Buildings Systems / Structural 2 Future consideration

Trim/Extend Multiple Walls

The Connect Walls command only works on 1 wall at a time. If the users need to extend multiple walls to touch another wall, the user must click the same wall multiple times. We should strive to match the workflow available in the Trim to Element C...
about 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 2 Future consideration

Allow the defintion of Inclined Floor Planes

Many users (CrossRail, TFL) working on stations would like to be able to define a "floor" that is inclined for use cases such as tunnels and ramps between platforms etc.
about 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 3 Planned

Automated Element Numbering

Generate element ID numbers based on their floor number and space location. For examples, manually label a space "03" on the first floor, becomes "103". A door that is manually labeled "A", opening into room 104 becomes "104A"
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

Add height of opening to width dimensions

When dimensioning the width of a door or window, show the height of the opening below the dimension line (in accordance with DIN standard)
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Future consideration

Clean-up Walls(and other forms) Through References

In a federated model, if I have 2 walls in separate files, it can be very difficult to clean up walls that are interacting between different models. We need to allow the Connect Wall tool (specifically connect as L Parallel and Connect Forms as L ...
about 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural / Structural 0 Future consideration

Management UI for Dataset Content to Ease Migration and Backup

We have several utilities that are point solutions for specific dataset management tasks. To migrate users to a new version of a dataset or backup user generated content requires multiple steps involving use of these utilities and manual manipulat...
about 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 2 Planned

One Click Dimension (with opening width)

If we can pick a wall and get an instant Dimension, maybe with Opening width as additional Information, it would accelerate the Plan Layout. Attached a GIF showing the idea in a sample macro created some years ago. Optional these dimensions could ...
about 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Planned

Scale-sensitive hatch

Adjust crosshatch patterns and symbolic fill spacing to plotting scale in each view.
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Future consideration

Automated reductions in reported floor area

Rule system to reduce area/volume of rooms based on sloped elements above, such as roofs and stairs, niches and floor-to-ceiling windows, and columns, in space reports
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Future consideration