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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 6 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural / Buildings Systems / Structural Future consideration

Associate structural elements to grid lines

Structural elements are associated to grids so changes to grid layout will propagate to associated elements, such as beams, columns, bearing walls, and footings.
over 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 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 6 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural / Structural Future consideration

Creation of structural foundations in OBD

Currently it is not possible to create dedicated "Footing" / foundation elements in OBD. The workaround is to use Beams (for strip foundation) or Columns (for pad foundation). However it's not an ideal situation. Proconcrete of course does offer t...
about 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural Future consideration

Elements created in particular floor level are not pinned with that level

Elements/Beams modelled in a particular floor level are not pinned with that level and need to move manually if there is any change in level through level manager
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural Future consideration

Prostructures Ribbon

So, in OBD, you can activate a Prostructures license You are then able to place all the Prostructures items, but you need to know the key-in to get to all the Prostructures placements, It would be good if there were a way to get the Prostructures ...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural Future consideration

Clean-up Walls in 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 Future consideration

Penetrations: Config/Rule per Penetration Object

The new Penetrations tool introduced in U10 is pretty promising. But, the current assumption that there a large 'classes' of Penetrations is flawed. There also needs to be a way to support Penetration rules/ config at Penetration level. Each Penet...
over 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural Future consideration

Slope of the staircase needs to be ajdusted

Currently, in OBD, the slope of the staircase is not adjustable. Length/slope is directly proportional to the stair tread depth. If we increase the depth of the tread than length/slope of the staircase also changes. There should be flexibility in ...
4 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural Future consideration

Drawing rules: label offset centered

It could be useful to add a "Center" options for the label offset in (structural) rules. Now there is only "Above" and "Below", which makes sense in combination with single line resymbolization. However for eg. concrete beams that are wide enough ...
about 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural Future consideration