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Match Wall perforator

When creating families and parts i/e/ a door, we need an option to MATCH Wall. This was available in PCS, but not in MS or OBD. As it stands you need to place a 3d slab that is your perforator = your cut depth. This s very limited. We need an opti...
7 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Needs review

Enable parts to be placed completely on active layer

Currently when doors, windows, walls, etc. are placed when a level is set as active, the various components of the part land on different levels. The part placement actually creates levels that have been programmed into the part and cannot be chan...
10 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 2 Needs review

Curtain Wall : Place as Cell support

The CW can not be placed as Cell The CW object contained in the Cell can not be parametrically flexed after placement. The Grips do present themselves but also do not work. When the Cell is dropped, the CW object disappears. The hope here is that ...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Needs review

Curtain Wall : ACS & Accudraw Compliance

The CW tool ignores the ACS, Accudraw orientation when the CW is placed (ACS Plan Lock on etc). This is not expected behaviour, and severely limits the usability of the tool. The CW object can be rotated to match the ACS after being placed. Being ...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Needs review

Local CS for Curtain Walls

The CW tool is pretty powerful, but it works only in the vertical plane as a 'wall'. The panelisation that the CW tool is useful as a lot of construction objects are based on panels and grids. Eg Cladding panels and frames, tiles and joints, celin...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Needs review

Staircase volume in quantity property tab

Want to see the concrete volume for staircase in quantity properties tab.
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 5 Needs review

Allow unfiers between parts

There is a need for unifiers work between parts
about 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Needs review

Create part - add DGN,CEL to the list of available files

When you create a 3d part, this would typically be a DGN or a cell. Although it is possible to edit the xsd files to include DGN and cel as a format, this is not set by default. Now that we have parametric modelling the DGN format needs to be visi...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Needs review

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almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 2 Needs review

Set default wall connect type

Currently when drawing new walls, the default connection is mitred (called 'bi-sector' in the "Connect Forms" tool). This is very unconventional, so I'd rather set the default to 'Parallel'. Now I have to re-do all connections after drawing the wall.
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Needs review