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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 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

Rounded Corners for Handrails

OBD tool should have parameter to round the corners (and ends) of the handrails? This is very common and required by the UK Bldg Regs. Also a big no-no for public stairs in stations for safety reasons. Dropping the handrail and trying to use the M...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

Clean-up Walls in 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 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural / Structural 0 Future consideration

Fill Option Control

Provide 3 options to all cut elements in a view: No fill, solid fill (black or gray), or original fill, instead of the current system which only shows the cut fills defined in the Part/Family system
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Future consideration

Space Volume property

The ability to automatically calculate space volume property which can be reflected in schedules.
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

Multi-layer Annotation

Ability to place annotations that lists all layers in the correct order with properties (width, materials, etc.).
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Future consideration

Models in VERIFY PARTS

With many Models in a file it would help a lot if you could filter what is in a separate Model. Verify Parts is very useful tool and simple to use. Really a prototype for how tools should be.
10 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

Compound Slab - from Mesh Option

The new CS tool looks very limited in scope. It would be good to extend its viability by supporting meshes. Flooring is rarely level or flat when you look across a project. It would be good to have an option that is based on Mstn's Thicken tool th...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Future consideration

Opening placement - Sense Distance = 0

As discussed in this forum post https://communities.bentley.com/products/building/building_analysis___design/f/aecosim-speedikon-forum/243581/obd-u10-wall-opening-cuts-compound-slab It is currently not possible to create an opening with "Sense dis...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 4 Future consideration

Program Manager Notification

If we delete files from the Design folder (our workset) and these files were used in Program Manager for Design Options, we should have notification when we start OBD that there are no these files and existing Design Option was changed.
about 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration