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Add Instance Data tool <> Cell/Nesting

It would be good to enhance the Add Instance Data tool so that it can tunnel into cells. Link to previous discussion See also ADO PBI 901466: DataGroups: Modify Instance Data Enhancements Another link
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Assembly Builder - Replace Assembly Workflow / Tool

It is recognised that components and assemblies need to be replaced intelligently. This is supported at platform level by the Replace Cell tool. Assemblies provide a way to for users to insert a lot of stuff. They will eventually need to manage th...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year 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...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Needs review

Search Field in Attributes

I would be helpful if "search field" is available in custom attribute which has long list of drop down options. For example in place column tool, section name has search field.
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Needs review

Transformation Utility - change common property

I want to change common property which is assigned to all categories. Currently, I have to select source and target, then map each property. It will be good to have an option to change only one or more common property.. See attachment.
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Needs review

Need functionality so that multiple variations of any cell can be added through a single catalog.

This idea is on behalf of one of our users who can not write English,The issue is,For any cell, there could be different variations depending on the various property values. For example in this picture here the user has created different variation...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Needs review

update the configuration explorer

need to compaire different configurations
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Needs review

Element level override for ifcBuilding and ifcBuildingStorey

Sometimes it would be nice to have the ability to override a specific element's ifcBuilding and ifcBuildingStorey. Now they can (only) be defined on model level in the IFC export - spatial mapping. It could mean creating a little less models/neste...
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Needs review

Penetrations: Clash Detection by selected element(s)

Apparently, the PM can do selective updates by allowing the user to select the cutting (or cut ?) element. The PM records the associated elements ElementIDs, presumably. Any callbacks triggered by manipulation by Mstn/OBD tools are recorded by the...
about 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration