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Model Audit tool

We have a series of very large infrastructure projects ie Rail station, airport , football stadium etc. typically these project contain several hundred DGN files and many more 2d files. In terms of 3d DGN files, one thing we are lacking is an AUDI...
7 months 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)
almost 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 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 4 years 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 ...
over 5 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural / Structural 0 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 ...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

Scale-sensitive hatch

Adjust crosshatch patterns and symbolic fill spacing to plotting scale in each view.
almost 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 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...
about 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 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
about 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

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...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 2 Future consideration

Automated reductions in reported floor area

Rule system to reduce area/volume of rooms based on sloped elements above, such as roofs and stairs, niches and floor-to-ceiling windows, and columns, in space reports
almost 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Future consideration