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Create space by flood on Referenced geometry

Currently the "Create space - Flood Area" only works on geometry in the active model. I'd be nice to also be able to use it with referenced geometry. See also Idea 138 - Create wall from space in Referenced File. Making this possible would probabl...
over 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 5 Already exists

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

Material alignment

If you have a building that contain a series of walls, if the building is rotated away from the horizontal and apply materials via the family and parts. when the building is cut the materials are never aligned with building ie a wall (see image) I...
11 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Needs review

OBD Selects references

I want to lock references to prevent them from being selected.
12 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 2 Already exists

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...
12 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Needs review

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.
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 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 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Needs review

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 ...
about 4 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
about 4 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.
about 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration