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💡 The Most Useful Button in OBD Doesn't Exist Yet

During the OBD 26 presentation, we were encouraged to submit ideas, report recurring frustrations, and vote on improvements. Which immediately raised a question: If this page is so important, why do so few people use it? I've been working in OBD f...
18 days ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Planned

Energy Sim - Views

When using energy simulator to only run heat gain and loss calculations, it is unclear where the drawn rooms on any floor are looking at the plan view as the ceilings/floors above show up over the top. Can there be a way to see the drawn rooms wit...
14 days ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Needs review

Duplicated IFC properties when modifying default property value

When a default value is used in dg in the workspace and later you locally modify it in the file, Openbuilding shows the locally modified. (Expected) The issue is when you export to ifc, then both the default and the locally modify value are export...
11 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Needs review

Improve the latency in software

In OpenBuildings Designer, introducing an intermediate buffer layer between the client application and the backend server can significantly enhance responsiveness and reduce perceived latency. This buffer—implemented as a caching or intermediary s...
6 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Will not implement

Extract the fonts of Notes by the Reports tool

I want to extract the fonts used in notes, whether they are used correctly or not, as per the client's requirements.
6 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Needs review

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...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Future consideration

In the floor manager, it should be possible to create multiple sites (ifcSite) and then select them. German: Im Geschossebenenmanager sollte es möglich sein mehrere Standorte (ifcSite) erstellen und danach auswählen zu können

In the floor manager, it should be possible to create multiple sites (ifcSite) and then select them. Currently, only one project (ifcProject) and one site (ifcSite) can be set per workset. Only multiple buildings (ifcBuilding) can be added. It is ...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Needs review

Removing or reassigning instance data does not work after placing OBD elements. German: Instanzdaten entfernen bzw. neu zuordnen funktioniert nach dem Platzieren von OBD-Elementen nicht

Removing or reassigning instance data no longer works after placing OBD elements (walls, railings, steel beams, profiles, etc.). German: Instanzdaten entfernen bzw. neu zuordnen funktioniert nach dem Platzieren von OBD-Elementen (Wänden, Geländer,...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Needs review

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 3 years 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.
9 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Future consideration