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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...
about 1 year 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...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 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...
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Needs review

Assembly Builder - Minimum No. of Elements

AB currently needs to have to include at least two OBD elements to create an Assembly. Or any OBD elements at all (Mstn elements only).This minimum is not aligned with Mstn behaviour which allows a single element to be defined as a Cell. Why two? ...
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Needs review

Assembly Builder - Placement Points (Persistent)

AB needs to support PPs. This will avert the need to manually pick change the insertion point which will be needed quite often. The new PPs introduced by platfrom are also persistent which means that when the assembly needs to be replaced, this ca...
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Needs review

Penetrations: Config / Rules engine

Currently, the configs can create rules for cutting elements based on 'size, type or even few properties'. It would be good to expand this to: Properties: Item Types / DGS / Family and Parts. Cut as well as Cutting element- sort of similar to the ...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Needs review