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Assembly Builder - Constraints Support

Any Constraints applied to the Mstn elements seem to be stripped out when the Assembly is placed. Apparently, this is a 'voluntary' decision by the Mstn team. Item Types seem to make it through OK which is good. It would be good to bypass this 'vo...
over 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Add IFC_Entity 'IfcSpatialZone' under the map dialogue in IFC Export

Filing this idea on behalf of B+S AG | Stefan Schöni. During the IFC export (2x3 and 4.0) not all official IFC entities and subtypes appear for selection, e.g., IfcSpatialZone incl. all subtypes are missing. How to assign modelled clearance profil...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Planned

Color 255

Nowadays there are lot of BIM technique with different CAD software. If I read an IFC in OBD other CAD software use color 255 in the Part and family. So when I want to plot or create a pdf file, this color doesn't show up on paper or pdf. Because ...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Needs review

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.
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Needs review

Add option to include or not Pro Structure during installation

Can you add an option to include or not 'Pro Structures' during the installation process.
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 3 Will not implement

Penetrations: Apply Changes / Update Model - Object by Object

The current global 'all or nothing' updates are only useful 5% of the time. For the bulk of the updates a step by step update is required. No engineering team is going to be happy relying on the vendor's algo without the assurance of visual inspec...
about 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Penetrations: Bulk Edit in Excel and Synch back to OBD

Penetrations are quite complicated and not easily defined by a few rules. The current selection of rules I think will be quickly overwhelmed. As such, I can see most people decoupling the Penetration objects from the PM as soon as possible, then e...
about 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

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 ...
over 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 3 Needs review

Remove Instance Data tool <> Cell/Nesting

It would be good to enhance the Remove Instance Data tool so that it can tunnel into cells. Link to previous discussion.
over 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Will not implement

Wall Cleanup + Cells

TF_UNIFY_CELL_CHILDREN is a great setting. Apparently can slow things down so something to combine with CVEs? Currently works for these conditions: Wall to Wall. OK Wall to Cell Wall. OK Cell Wall to Cell Wall. OK Cell Wall to Wall-in-Ref. OK Wall...
over 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 3 Future consideration