Skip to Main Content
Need Support? Let’s guide you to the right answer or agent.
ADD A NEW IDEA

Architectural

Showing 76 of 202

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

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 ...
almost 5 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural / Structural 0 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 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 2 Future consideration

Resymbolising centerlines with Display Rules

It would be very useful if we could control the appearance of centerlines using the Display Rules
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Needs review

Add an option to create Sub Assemblies

In OBD there is an option to create Assemblies. This is the form of a Cell. Once placed the cell contents no longer cells but are individual elements i.e. a wall, these are also visible in the schedules tools. this is a great function to have. How...
7 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Needs review

Need the ability to create Vertical Louvres in a curtain wall

Currently there is no option to create a vertical louvre in a curtain wall, it is limited to horizontal only. Please can we add this Ian
7 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Planned

Parametric cell and repeated drawing symbols

In Parametric Cell Studio, lines, rectangles, etc. could be repeated a number of times according to a variable to represent the top view drawing, for example. In parametric cells, this is not possible. It is possible to use a parametric solid arra...
7 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

Symbols Compound cells

In OBD V8i there was the possibility of referencing a cell as a drawing symbol in BXC. It could then be embedded and saved as a drawing symbol.In OBD 2023 the behavior has changed and they appear in red and the cell cannot be embedded as a drawing...
7 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 5 Needs review

Parametric cells need to place handles

In Parametric Cell Studio, there is the possibility of placing handles to change the dimension of a measurement. The change updates the dimensions of the entire cell.It would be interesting to be able to use this option in Parametric Cell and not ...
7 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 2 Future consideration

Resolve slab encounter with stair

Staircase encounters with the slab are not considered in OBD. It would be interesting to be able to adjust them directly in the stair settings so that they are similar to reality when they are built.See image
7 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration