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2026 Tech Preview - 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...
4 days ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural Needs review

additional information in Speedikon References

Cross-file transfer that preserves the original component elevation layers from the source file would be a great solution to this issue. A checkbox to toggle the visibility of references for verifying the drawing transfer would be great.
10 days ago in OpenBuildings Speedikon Needs review

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...
9 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Needs review

Extract the fonts of Notes by the Reports tool

I want to extract the fonts used in notes, whether they are used correctly or not, as per the client's requirements.
4 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Needs review

Dark Theme

There are aa couple of dialog boxes that re not very nice to look at when you are in Dark Theme. 1. Cell Selector 2. Placing Structural Members 3. Change Type "Instance Data" THIS IS URGENT!!!!! This is the main one as you CANNOT see the Values th...
about 1 month ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural Needs review

Adding a property Item types to Catalog Items (the same way you add a family/part (new data type))

With the Item Type expression builder you can automate adding data to your object. You can add several dimensions, add categories under various conditions, but also add for instance the description of the model etc etc. It would be very valuable t...
about 1 month ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Needs review

Add Structural Types to structural framing lookups

Hi The StructuralFramingCommon_enumlookups.xml is found in the C:\Program Files\Bentley\OpenBuildings 20XX\OpenBuildingsDesigner\DataGroupSystem\ This means that the Structural types are not able to be edited. need to move all the files in the C:\...
about 1 month ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Needs review

In the floor manager, it should be possible to create multiple sites (ifcSite) and then select them. German: Im Geschossebenenmanager sollte es möglich sein mehrere Standorte (ifcSite) erstellen und danach auswählen zu können

In the floor manager, it should be possible to create multiple sites (ifcSite) and then select them. Currently, only one project (ifcProject) and one site (ifcSite) can be set per workset. Only multiple buildings (ifcBuilding) can be added. It is ...
12 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Needs review

Ribbon Editing GUI DGNLIB

When you have two DGNLIB files - one at the Organization>Dgnlib>Gui location and the other one at the WorkSet_Name>Standards>Dgnlib>Gui location. You cannot add the same Workflow names this just creates 2 workflows with the same nam...
about 2 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Needs review

Change Colours of the SWA Colours

The colours of the cube that is displayed is dependent in the colour table that you have attached to the file so if you have the autocad.tbl attach the cube colours are yellow on inside the SWA and green on element outside SWA. I believe that in t...
about 2 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Needs review