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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 ...
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Future consideration

external edit rights for non-active Model

Make it possible for 'another' user to open and edit a all Models in a file except for the Model I have active.
5 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 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...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration

Add Carbon Emission Index/rate parameters

As there is an increase awareness on carbon emission and a need to calculate the embedded carbon rate per volume of material assigned in the model, it should be time for this parameter to be included and rate set based on standard EC rate. Current...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Match Element in Modify Properties panel - Always Active

The Match Element properties tool is currently available only while placing a new element. This restricts the type of elements it can match and forces the user to query the element to find out its kind, hop around to different tools. This is a lot...
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Planned

Penetrations: Overrides

Support for overrides would be a big productivity booster. Overlaps with Ideas / worflows for: 1. Penetration Object level rules / configs. Progressive refinement of low LOD rules into higher LOD rules via a 'parent - children' sub-classing workfl...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Needs review

Penetrations: Managment of follow on associations / call backs.

The PM apparently records the call backs triggered by Mstn's tools that manipulate / modify the cutting / cut elements for each Penetration object. When the user triggers an Update, the PM dialog is updated and the PO is updated in the model. It w...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 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 ...
6 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Needs review

Allow option to remove Context Menu items that are not loaded in from the GUI.dgnlib

The right click context menus have items that are loaded into it from outside a dgn library, provide method to show /hide all context menu items, not just the ones designated thorough a dgn.lib file.
7 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Needs review

Floor Manager and Grid tools should recognise Coordinate Systems and enable defined building locations

On large projects, with multiple (& repeated) buildings it is common to model the building around the file origin, and then reference/place into actual location. The current system does not recognise if the refernce is moved, so the floor mana...
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration