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Allow Updates to Cached Drawings with missing references

If a reference is removed from a composition model, then any cached drawings referencing Saved Views from that composition model will get an error message that prevents the cached DV from updating. There are several reasons that users may want to ...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 4 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
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 3 Future consideration

Annotation Tools Refresh

Some of OBD's Annotation tools date back to the 90s and need to be updated. A lot of OBD's functionality is also based on new Mstn tech like DV callouts (Place Section Callout, Place Detail Callout, Place Elevation Callout, Place Plan Callout, Pla...
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Planned

Schedule export to XLSX

The format for Excel export from schedules should be to the modern Excel XLSX format rather than the legacy XLS one.
4 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration

Upgrade design file cleanup tool to work with building elements

in basic MS the design file cleanup tool is very useful at removing duplicate elements, this should be upgraded to work with Building elements such as walls, doors, windows(and all objects) and structural elements also.
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Select Similar

A Select Similar options needs to be added to the Right Click Popup option menu or the Tools Settings dialog. AutoCAD has had this feature for a long time and it would be very useful to be able to select a particular Element, such as a wall or a w...
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 3 Future consideration

Project Manager tool

A single dialog to manage project settings, files, configuration variables, workset, dataset, and other options for OBD projects
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Future consideration

Allow non-parametric cells to be placed as shared cells through the DG placement dialogs.

Users would like an option to place cells through the DataGroup enriched placement dialogs (as opposed to Compound Cell Manager or Cells dialog) as Shared Cells. Users have several detailed cells that are used many times in the same model. Without...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration

Profile tool - Perforator Option

OBD's Profile tool is quite powerful. A lot of building elements are linear and can be modeled this way. Mstn's new Perforator tool is also powerful as it complements solid modeling by providing the 'negative' of solids ie voids. Together, both fu...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration

Concatenate 2 dg properties

I would like to concatinate 2 dg properties into 1 property. Ex. DoorID = SpaceNumber+DoorNumber.
11 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 3 Will not implement