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Rhino inside

HI Bentley I was just looking at Revit/Rhino/Grasshopper and they are all linked via a tool called Rhino Inside. https://www.rhino3d.com/inside/revit/1.0/ When revit, rhino and grasshopper are linked, the tool sets are added to each of the 3 appli...
3 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Needs review

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"
over 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

Add height of opening to width dimensions

When dimensioning the width of a door or window, show the height of the opening below the dimension line (in accordance with DIN standard)
over 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Future consideration

Use of the Exchange Reference Command

When we have file A active and B and C referenced, selecting B and using Exchange is simply equivalent to opening file B. The ideal function would be to open file B with A and C referenced.
10 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Needs review

Place Wall by Space / Shape - Segment option

It would be good to include this option. Its very rare that all sides of the space or room will have the same wall type. The user ends up having to delete or mod most of the walls or even worse not using the tool at all. With this option, the OBD ...
5 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

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 5 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 3 Planned

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

Clean-up Walls(and other forms) Through References

In a federated model, if I have 2 walls in separate files, it can be very difficult to clean up walls that are interacting between different models. We need to allow the Connect Wall tool (specifically connect as L Parallel and Connect Forms as L ...
about 5 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural / Structural 0 Future consideration

Scale-sensitive hatch

Adjust crosshatch patterns and symbolic fill spacing to plotting scale in each view.
over 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Future consideration

Place Slab - From Shape => Shape from reference file

Allow the option "From Shape" in Create Slab to accept input shape located in a referenced file. Now as a workaround I first have to copy these shapes from the refernce into active design file, then I can use the Create Slab From Shape
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration