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Staircase - Label Co-ordinates

Label Co-ordinates not working on the staircase Hence raising an enhancement request to address this missing detail in OBD
10 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural Future consideration

Angular Grids

Angular Grids do not display in the sections. Currently, grids that are angled and not perpendicular to the slice do not show up in Sections or Elevations. This results in missing angular grids on the drawing sheets. Additionally, when elevations ...
10 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural Future consideration

Catalog Editor filter/search

Can we add an option within the catalog editor dialog to search for a part or instance. ATM if you are not 100% sure where the part or instance is defined it takes forever to locate it. Having a search option will make this process so much easier....
28 days ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural Future consideration

Need sloped slab from compound slab option

Team needs it and creating sloped slab now is a challenge.
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural Future consideration

Open RVT files directly

It would be great to be able to open RVT files without having to use iTwins. Increasingly using BricsCAD BIM to open up RVT files to look at what is inside. Works great! A lot of manufacturers are providing their content as RVT files, instead of s...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Future consideration

Set Active Grids per selected building

current 'set active grids' function select all buildings defined in floor manager as default. It will be good to turn on only selected building in Floor Selector as default.
7 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Future consideration

Definition editor string property limited to 255

When a property is defined as string in definition editor despite there are fields where you can declare the maximum and minimun length, the program trunks the string at 255 characters instead the number you define as maximum length
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 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)
almost 6 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural / Buildings Systems / Structural Future consideration

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....
about 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 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...
2 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural Future consideration