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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 month ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 0 Needs review

Double Angles and Channels as 2 Single Angles

The Combined shape option is too time consuming to create for this content. It also does not transfer to other applications (ProStructures, TEKLA, Etc.). These applications want to display them as two separate angles. The spacing is dictated by th...
about 2 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 1 Needs review

Set default placement based on PS shape.

When placing certain member types, not need to remember the offset rotation and position. It would be good to be able to set these.
11 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 1 Already exists

Structural Tool Open to Last Library Instead of Reset

Each time you go to place a structural member the tool resets to the base directory of the libraries. It would save a LOT of time is the tool remembered the last library list used and defaulted there instead of resetting to the beginning. It can b...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 0 Already exists

SNDF Export to export everything including all non structural members.

Currently the sndf export just exports structural members and non structural members such as handrail, grating, concrete goes missing. This will help the sndf export to have the whole model without missing geometry.
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 1 Will not implement

Export OBD Structural to Dlubal RFEM 6

For our structural analysis we are currently using the new RFEM 6 from Dlubal-Software and for the design part we are using Openbuildings Designer.In our BIM oriented projects we exchange our data between RFEM 6 and Openbuildings Designer mostly b...
about 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 0 Needs review

Move Members to Defined RL

Something that would be very handy is a tool that would move elements to a preset rl. This would be a much easier option over using the move command in large models. Would also be great is there was an option to flatten raked members.
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 0 Needs review

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 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 1 Future consideration

Place PS Member Mirrored

Very handy option we had with OBD members was to place a member mirrored. Great for modelling channel sections.
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 2 Planned

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 ...
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 1 Future consideration