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Update compound slab so align hatch to form works

I want to be able to use "Align hatch to form" even with a Compound slab, which is not possible at the moment. If you have a pattern that is required to align with the slab, it's not possible to get it through the part and family system. Like the ...
3 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Table Formatting

Need to be able to format the text separately from the table lines. We also need to be able to format or change the text as a bulk action. At the moment, you need to go into each cell, format the text and move to the next cell. The other thing is ...
3 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Needs review

Annotation Tools Refresh

Some of OBD's Annotation tools date back to the 90s and need to be updated. A lot of OBD's functionality is also based on new Mstn tech like DV callouts (Place Section Callout, Place Detail Callout, Place Elevation Callout, Place Plan Callout, Pla...
about 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Planned

IFC entity mapping for subcomponents of Curtain Wall

The subcomponents Panels and Mullions of Curtain Wall now mapped to IfcBuildingElementProxy in IfcEntity when exported to IFC4 in OpenBuildings. Tried to modify the mapping options in the IFC Export dialog or edit the IFC_PartMapping_ifc4.set to a...
7 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

OBD / OBES Python API

Implement Python API for OBD and OpenBuilding Energy Simulator. Previous discussion here
3 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Future consideration

Upgrade design file cleanup tool to work with building elements

in basic MS the design file cleanup tool is very useful at removing duplicate elements, this should be upgraded to work with Building elements such as walls, doors, windows(and all objects) and structural elements also.
about 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Section callout

Section callout should be moved by the keyboard's arrows.
7 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 4 Future consideration

Allow non-parametric cells to be placed as shared cells through the DG placement dialogs.

Users would like an option to place cells through the DataGroup enriched placement dialogs (as opposed to Compound Cell Manager or Cells dialog) as Shared Cells. Users have several detailed cells that are used many times in the same model. Without...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration

Select Similar

A Select Similar options needs to be added to the Right Click Popup option menu or the Tools Settings dialog. AutoCAD has had this feature for a long time and it would be very useful to be able to select a particular Element, such as a wall or a w...
about 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 3 Future consideration

Concatenate 2 dg properties

I would like to concatinate 2 dg properties into 1 property. Ex. DoorID = SpaceNumber+DoorNumber.
about 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 3 Will not implement