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Railing with baseboard

The problem is that it is not possible to use a flat iron profile from the standard catalog because this profile is always placed horizontally instead of vertically on the railing. I have not found a way to place the profile rotated by 90 degrees....
8 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 1 Needs review

Speed up designing with OpenBuildings Designer

I have a problem. Sometimes OBD will crash without any warning. All my projects are very big. > 10GB on third parties files. And when I want to place a pipe or a valve, it took a 8-9 seconds to show up the Place component menu. I think there mu...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 8 Future consideration

Grid Systems and Floor manager

In Grid systems menu there is a possibity to import XML files. But I receive IFC or RVT files. And mostley there is a grid IFCGrid. Is it possible to import this IFCGrid into OpenBuilding and also the levels of the floor in the floor manager. Beca...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 4 Future consideration

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

Apply Part and Family to elements in group "orphan cell"

When you group elements it creates an orphan cell so when you apply Part and Family it only applies to the Cell Header not all the elements in the Group "orphan cell". Need to have a "Change Whole Elements" like there is in the Change tool. And on...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 1 Future consideration

Use Text with (Fx) functionality

When filling a textcode using the funtionality of f(x) you can choose a lot of data used or filled in the component you've add in your model. But when you copied the component a view times in the model, you want to use the functionality of the tex...
5 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 0 Needs review

Duplicate parts - Catalog Editor

Can we add an option within the Catalog Editor to expose the file name that the duplicate parts reside in. Within the Catalog editor, there are tow columns (left and right). in the left hand side you see just one duplicate part. within the section...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 1 Future consideration

Data of Manufacturer

There are a lot of data on the internet from manufacturers. For the Building design system, it would be very nice to use real measurements of the manufacturers. For example, there is a data group of Victaulic implemented in Bentley Open Plant. htt...
11 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 3 Planned

A new command for "Springpipe" (Stub that must have a negative value)

There is a new mechanical process to make a stub in a pipe for a sprinklerhead. They melt a hole in the pipe with a mechanical object and make a thread in the hole with the dimensions of the sprinklerhead. And the sprinklerhead can be screwed in t...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 2 Future consideration

Piping connection: Add option for 2x 135deg elbow

In sewer installations 90deg elbows are avoided. Instead we use 2x 135deg. It would be nice to have such an option in the "Connect" interface. Also maybe in the "Plumbing Autofitting Preferences". It might look like a small detail, certainly in th...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 6 Future consideration