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Material alignment

If you have a building that contain a series of walls, if the building is rotated away from the horizontal and apply materials via the family and parts. when the building is cut the materials are never aligned with building ie a wall (see image) I...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural Needs review

Rhino inside

HI Bentley I was just looking at Revit/Rhino/Grasshopper and they are all linked via a tool called Rhino Inside. https://www.rhino3d.com/inside/revit/1.0/ When revit, rhino and grasshopper are linked, the tool sets are added to each of the 3 appli...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural Needs review

Design Options - More than just spaces

Bentley. Can you expand the options of using design options to more than just Spaces. I feel this would be a great tool for the entire project. Ian
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural Needs review

Add an option to create Sub Assemblies

In OBD there is an option to create Assemblies. This is the form of a Cell. Once placed the cell contents no longer cells but are individual elements i.e. a wall, these are also visible in the schedules tools. this is a great function to have. How...
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural Needs review

Symbols Compound cells

In OBD V8i there was the possibility of referencing a cell as a drawing symbol in BXC. It could then be embedded and saved as a drawing symbol.In OBD 2023 the behavior has changed and they appear in red and the cell cannot be embedded as a drawing...
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural Needs review

Filled spaces are not displayed with display rules

A behavior that should be corrected. By indicating filled spaces in dynamic view, the spaces are not shown filled. If we indicate display rules for these spaces in dynamic views, the spaces are shown as indicated by the display rules but are no...
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural Needs review

Use of the Exchange Reference Command

When we have file A active and B and C referenced, selecting B and using Exchange is simply equivalent to opening file B. The ideal function would be to open file B with A and C referenced.
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural Needs review

Modify PAZ with Parametric Cell Studio

When a PAZ cell is modified with PCS, the modified copy appears at point 0,0,0. The previous copy remains. It is requested: change this behavior and replace the modified cell in its place of placement, as it worked in OBD V8i See attached video
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural Needs review

Produce IFC with textures

Add support for IFC4 export with textures as entities IfcBlobTexture, IfcPixelTexture or IfcImageTexture. This would allow to deliver results in IFC even if yet not all IFC viewers/editors can handle textures. See how these examples work with late...
about 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural Needs review

Match Wall perforator

When creating families and parts i/e/ a door, we need an option to MATCH Wall. This was available in PCS, but not in MS or OBD. As it stands you need to place a 3d slab that is your perforator = your cut depth. This s very limited. We need an opti...
about 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural Needs review