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Schedule wall layers/components - display the actual wall family/part

In OBD > 10 you can schedule a single wall and wall assembly. However, what you cannot do is schedule the wall assembly layers aka sub walls and maintain their real family/part names. OBD will schedule them as 'Default' walls rather than the ac...
10 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 2 Future consideration

Map Itemtype Properties to DG Definitions

Itemtype can read lot of properties of an element using expressions however DG System can only read certain properties. It would be great to have a link between Itemtype or EC Schema properties and DG Prporties so user can map some of the properti...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

'Protrusions' on cuts for Dynamic Views

See https://communities.bentley.com/products/building/building_analysis___design/f/aecosim-speedikon-forum/245449/section-with-an-angle/770822 Possible to place cut/Dynamic View level so it goes through door, windows etc on same floor even if they...
10 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 3 Needs review

Penetrations: User-defined Penetration Object

The Penetration Object geometry should be replaced by a Parametric Cell, which the user can modify to suit project needs, additional elements etc. Penetrations require a lot of additional construction elements like sleeves, boarding, supports / li...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Project Manager tool

A single dialog to manage project settings, files, configuration variables, workset, dataset, and other options for OBD projects
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Future consideration

Overall simplification of the steps required to link a database to a datagroup catalog such as piping systems

The process to create a link between an Access database and some datagroup info is painfull at least. Manually editing xml files, making sure everything matches between properties, database columns names, units, making sure we are not using some t...
7 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 2 Future consideration

Link access databases to datagroup other than mechanical

It would work the same way it already does for mechanical datagroup instances. To have the ability to link an Access database to datagroups from other specialties. It would be helpful if you have codes for specs or BOQs, organized in a database. O...
7 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 4 Future consideration

Mstn Parametric Solids Variables in DGS

When the DGS be able to interact with the variables that come with and drive Functional Cells? Link to discussion five years ago
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration

Add curve to Curtain wall

The current Curtain Wall tool in OBD10 doesn't allow you to create a Curtain wall that contains a curve or a complex shape. With the new style buildings that are being designed, there are very few buildings that do not have some sort of curved roo...
8 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

grid balloon text

When you create a GRID system and define the Grid balloons, if the grid is not orthogonal to the view ie a building is not horizontal, when the grid is placed, the balloon text is placed at an odd angle. These text are unable to be rotated to the ...
12 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration