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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 ...
2 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural Future consideration

Control structural drawing rule annotation angle

The following workflow results in upside-down text: - We have a 3D source model whose geometry displays non-orthogonal based on true real-world coordinates, which we attach to a container model as a reference.- We then rotate that reference attach...
4 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural Future consideration

Prostructure members to use the density "mass" that is in the material database.

The issue is that the only place the member gets the density is from the that part and family "Report Components Tab". so not able to have different materials EG stainless steel member that have the same part.there is a material garde in the data ...
7 months 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
11 months 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

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 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / 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

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 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural Future consideration

Structural rules based on DG Catalog

For Architectural and Mechanical drawing rules it is already possible to use the DG catalog to assign a rule to the elements it must be applied to. For Structural drawing rules only the Family/Part can be used. Please provide similar functionality...
almost 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / 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...
almost 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural Future consideration