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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)
over 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...
over 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 2 Future consideration

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"
almost 3 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)
almost 3 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 ...
over 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural / Structural 0 Future consideration

Need sloped slab from compound slab option

Team needs it and creating sloped slab now is a challenge.
3 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 3 Future consideration

Scale-sensitive hatch

Adjust crosshatch patterns and symbolic fill spacing to plotting scale in each view.
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Future consideration

Railing Prostructures section placement point

When you are choosing the Prostructures members in any of the areas the member is always Place top Center. Need to be appy to choose the placement point E.G. Centre - Center
6 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 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
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Future consideration

Rounded Corners for Handrails

OBD tool should have parameter to round the corners (and ends) of the handrails? This is very common and required by the UK Bldg Regs. Also a big no-no for public stairs in stations for safety reasons. Dropping the handrail and trying to use the M...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration