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Add the CAD/BIM Centers USACE BIM Object Library (UBOL) to Component Center

This would make using generic components in Government designs easier to get to.
11 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Needs review

IFC Spatial Containment - Multi select and assign floor to files.

When exporting IFC and when working with projects that contain multiple buildings, there is no single way to assign the reference files to a single building. Every reference within the file path has to be selected seperately to assign the building...
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Needs review

XML-Excel Conversion Utility 2.0

OBD has Edit-in-Exel for DGS properties. Bravo. What would be good is if the old XML-Excel Conversion Utility could used to provide an Excel-based route to editing all that xml based info that OBD needs... .xsd, F&P etc etc etc Has its uses, b...
about 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Needs review

Add cached files and live nesting function

For example, if we have 5(five) volume files referenced into a masterfile and this masterfile is referenced to a mastermodel where you take sections for 2D drawings. The 2D drawing is cached. When opening this file with live nesting set to 2, the ...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Needs review

Working in dwg mode and want to reference a dwg - reference options

When working in dwg mode and want to reference a dwg. The nested choice is not on. Posibility of autocad have also a overlay and attached choice. And in OBD the choice is already made. Please let the designer make the choice what he/she wants to s...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Needs review

line styles selector with graphic representation

Add a graphic representation of the line styles in the line style dialog. Display all Line Styles e.g. as cells in Cell Selector.
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 3 Needs review

Enhance All Triforma Form Modification tools to take multiple inputs

Looking at the old Triforma Form manipulation tools, it is amazing how inconsistent they are and how badly they support dealing with multiple or 'many' elements. Forcing the user to manually click and feed the tools one element at a time. This is ...
about 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 3 Needs review

Add "Date Modified" to Model Dialog

Similar to how you have a "Date modified" in Windows Explorer as a way to sort a list of files. I always have countless models in the dialog, where many are reiterations of the same model, and would like to sort them by "date last modified". This ...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Needs review

Have the cut section annotation bubble show the saved view name, without the need to pace it in a sheet

There are two moments where we use cut sections - when we are preparing drawigns for publishing, and also when we just need to see some geometry in a specific way to better help understand the construction. Its really difficult, after creating a f...
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Needs review

Color tabel slection in Create Drawing dialog

When you use Creat View tools and the Creat Drawing dialog appears it would be nice to be able to set the specific color table for Creat Drawing Model, and Creat sheet Model. For example, the Seedfile you select when naming the file. pick the colo...
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Needs review