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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...
2 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Parametric Frame/Cell Builder

There is currently no effective means to generate and update Parametric / Compound Cells. Including the proxy view dependent geometry is key to reducing BV,DV generation times. Also needed to automate and coordinate detail drawing production. The ...
3 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

IFC entity mapping for subcomponents of Curtain Wall

The subcomponents Panels and Mullions of Curtain Wall now mapped to IfcBuildingElementProxy in IfcEntity when exported to IFC4 in OpenBuildings. Tried to modify the mapping options in the IFC Export dialog or edit the IFC_PartMapping_ifc4.set to a...
about 2 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

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.
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration

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 ...
almost 2 years 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
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 3 Future consideration

Option to ungroup components placed as array parametric solid

Filing this idea on behalf of B+S AG | Stefan Schöni. While using the command "Array parametric solid feature", the components are 'grouped' - this is still the case in the IFC file. This means that no evaluations can be made because, for example,...
7 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 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...
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration

Generative Components: Support MS Python

It would be great to be able to support interaction with MS Python scripts. GC locks any Mstn geometry that it manipulates. This severely limits its use compared with other visual programming aids like Dynamo, PyRevit. MS Python seems a lot less c...
4 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Migrate data from one dataset to another

I would like to have some sort of (visual) tool that can show what data is stored in dataset A and convert bits of it to Dataset B. I do not want the entire dataset just bits of it i.e we could spend hours creating a series of doors, gates etc., w...
4 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration