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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...
about 1 month ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Planned

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...
about 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Planned

Allow the defintion of Inclined Floor Planes

Many users (CrossRail, TFL) working on stations would like to be able to define a "floor" that is inclined for use cases such as tunnels and ramps between platforms etc.
about 6 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural Planned

IFC 4.3 Schema

IFC Export: IFC 4.3 Schema
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Planned

Ceiling

There is no ceiling option to model in OBD. Need to use slab to model for ceiling. A separate catalog is needed for ceiling due to different Pset & SGPset use.
8 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural Planned

One Click Dimension (with opening width)

If we can pick a wall and get an instant Dimension, maybe with Opening width as additional Information, it would accelerate the Plan Layout. Attached a GIF showing the idea in a sample macro created some years ago. Optional these dimensions could ...
about 6 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural Planned

Place PS Member Mirrored

Very handy option we had with OBD members was to place a member mirrored. Great for modelling channel sections.
over 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural Planned

Parametric Cell Variations and Control

My understanding is that when assigning a parametric cell to a datagroup definiton, if that parametric cell contains a set of variations only one variation can be used or applied. Thus if I need to use all three variations I must create 3 datagrou...
about 6 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer Planned

Management UI for Dataset Content to Ease Migration and Backup

We have several utilities that are point solutions for specific dataset management tasks. To migrate users to a new version of a dataset or backup user generated content requires multiple steps involving use of these utilities and manual manipulat...
about 6 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural Planned

Merge Dataset family & parts

Within the different datasets, there are family and parts that do not exist in other datasets ie within the US dataset there are handrails with a glass panels, but in the UK dataset this is missing. There are many many other items that I feel shou...
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural Planned