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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)
over 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural / Buildings Systems / Structural 2 Future consideration

Trim/Extend Multiple Walls

The Connect Walls command only works on 1 wall at a time. If the users need to extend multiple walls to touch another wall, the user must click the same wall multiple times. We should strive to match the workflow available in the Trim to Element C...
over 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 2 Future consideration

Associate structural elements to grid lines

Structural elements are associated to grids so changes to grid layout will propagate to associated elements, such as beams, columns, bearing walls, and footings.
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 0 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 ...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 4 Future consideration

Speed up designing with OpenBuildings Designer

I have a problem. Sometimes OBD will crash without any warning. All my projects are very big. > 10GB on third parties files. And when I want to place a pipe or a valve, it took a 8-9 seconds to show up the Place component menu. I think there mu...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 8 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
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 3 Future consideration

Automated Element Numbering

Generate element ID numbers based on their floor number and space location. For examples, manually label a space "03" on the first floor, becomes "103". A door that is manually labeled "A", opening into room 104 becomes "104A"
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

Finish consolidating tools

Throughout OBD, we have lots of tools that do similar things. For example, we have "Connect Elements", but also "Connect Beams/Pipes" and "Connect Roofs". This semi-duplication makes it harder to find commands and slower to find them because they ...
over 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer 5 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.
about 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...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 3 Future consideration