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Improve DWG Export

Currently when exporting drawing models to DWG it appears as if the OBD-specific geometry is completely ignored. What I mean is that the entire represantation based on F/P assignment is not respected in the DWG file. I would expect the DWG file to...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 3 Already exists

More IFC Manipulation tools

I really love the "ifcTransformReferenced" key-in. It's the easiest way I know of to relocate an IFC file, keeping all other information intact. It would be so nice to get some similar features for: Splitting IFC file: For example we often receive...
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Needs review

Improvement in Family/Parts Editor and Catalog Editor

Hi, It will be appreciate to have a better respect of the general Windows convention in these two dialog boxes. 1) They are similar but they are working differently 2) When an entity is editable in the tree or in the listview (right side), F...
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration

Drawings: Resymbolizing files(IFC,3DM, DWG, ITwin, etc) from different applications when referenced in OpenBuildings

An OpenBuildings Civil Structural user may need to reference an iTwin model of a bridge design. The OpenBuildings user may need to represent the concrete of the bridge in section with a concrete hatch including unification of separate concrete obj...
about 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration

Modify Properties tool in Modify Instance Data Panel

Seems like Properties in Mstn are not talking to the DGS-led properties in OBD. It would be good to provide better synching between yje Modify Properties tool and the Modify Instance Data Panel. Eventually a unified panel? Enhancement Request # 11...
about 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Future consideration

Add Instance Data - Mapping tool

Could the Add Instance Data tool be enhanced to provide some means of linking the object's Properties to the DGS information, please? Link to previous discussion back 2015. There seems to quite a lot of progress with Expressions which can extract ...
about 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Future consideration

Make Displayset different sets for different views

In dense models it is easier to identify one/a few elements and see their relations to other elements. Like viewset.mdl did in ABD
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 11 Future consideration

Generative Components: Support MS Python

It would be great to be able to support interaction with MS Python scripts. GC locks any Mstn geometry that it manipulates. This severely limits its use compared with other visual programming aids like Dynamo, PyRevit. MS Python seems a lot less c...
8 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Migrate data from one dataset to another

I would like to have some sort of (visual) tool that can show what data is stored in dataset A and convert bits of it to Dataset B. I do not want the entire dataset just bits of it i.e we could spend hours creating a series of doors, gates etc., w...
8 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

WorkSuite-savvy Activate

Now that Worksuites are here, it would be good to provide a quick means to switch between OpenBuildings, Speedikon, ProStructures, OpenSite Designer, Descartes, iTwin Capture Modeler and LumenRT. For the five 'verticals' based on Mstn, it would be...
8 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Will not implement