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Mitre Elbows in Plumbing

The uses of mitred elbows is a standard. there is Mitred elbows in the ducting system but not in the Plumbing system.
4 days ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Needs review

Label Line is a neat little tool. However, it always marks angles from the X-axis counterclockwise. Is it possible to have it show angles 180>a>360 as -11,5?

See the attached image, which would be more intuitive in many cases. It will be much clearer for the recipients of my drawings. Faster to read and avoid mistakes!!
13 days ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Needs review

💡 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...
3 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Planned

Curtain wall profile

Curtain Wall profile: Curtain Wall profiles are not parametrically editable. Hence, raising an enhancement request to allow changes to the curtain wall profile using direct parameters, with more standard sizes to be added to the library/catalogue,...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 2 Will not implement

Staircase - Label Co-ordinates

Label Co-ordinates not working on the staircase Hence raising an enhancement request to address this missing detail in OBD
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

Place Plate by Shape

When placing plates need to have the shape in the drop-down list.
about 1 month ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 0 Future consideration

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...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 5 Needs review

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 ...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

Visibility States Range

Hi Bentley When OBD2026 is released we would love the option to use Visibility States to control the graphical outputs of BIM objects such as a wall We can set up a VS called Low Medium High within each we define how the wall will look in each sta...
5 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

Dataset cleanup tools

I have received a series of XML files and when I open OBD, I need to be able to clean up any duplicates, missing data, etc. ATM this is a painful exercise. Can we have a nice dialog that allows us to review the Dataset validation reports and actua...
4 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Future consideration