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Room Ref and Room name lines when creating a new room

When tracing a new room, the window pops up to input the room reference. I want an additional line put in, so i can write the room name/description, as well as the room reference. Currently, i have to compelte tracing the room to create the room, ...
about 1 month ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 0 Needs review

Room by Room Schedule Summary

I want a facility to quickly print a schedule that shows every room within the whole building and sumamrises the area of each room and the occupancy of that room. I do not want a total for the whole building. It needs to be on a room by room basis...
about 1 month ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 0 Needs review

Titlebox for printouts

I am former Hevacomp user. There I had option to add a title box to layout printout, so client was presented with project number, building name, scale etc. It looked professional and helped to avoid mistakes. Not sure why it is not available on En...
2 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 0 Needs review

Spaces are not in alphabetical order

Spaces appear in the project tree in order of tracing and not in alphabetical order. The trouble is it cannot be changed and it is being replicated in all the results and reports. Numbers are often a part of room names, so I often end up with room...
2 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 2 Needs review

Railing with baseboard

The problem is that it is not possible to use a flat iron profile from the standard catalog because this profile is always placed horizontally instead of vertically on the railing. I have not found a way to place the profile rotated by 90 degrees....
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 1 Needs review

Allow batch mode without GUI

As per the manual (OpenBuildings Speedikon CONNECT Edition Update 4.2) , the export of IFC files can be batch processed by creating a job.lst file in PROJECT\des\bat\COMPUTERNAME\ife\job.ptk and then running speedm.exe "-mod" "design" "-prj" "proj...
8 months ago in OpenBuildings Speedikon 1 Needs review

Sprinklerhead rfa import

When I import the rfa file of a sprinklerhead, I can't choose the datagroup of a sprinkler system. Because Sprinkler is a different disciplin in Mechanical world. It is a safety. And OBD have a menu for Sprinkler called "Fire protection", but if i...
about 2 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 0 Needs review

Model Audit tool

We have a series of very large infrastructure projects ie Rail station, airport , football stadium etc. typically these project contain several hundred DGN files and many more 2d files. In terms of 3d DGN files, one thing we are lacking is an AUDI...
2 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Needs review

Creating native Revit files

Native Revit file Here in Holland the Architect, contructions, mechanical and Electric firms demand to use Revit. In their BIM protocols they demand to collaborate with RVT and IFC files. They demand me to collaborate this way. I don't have any so...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 5 Needs review

Create datagroup for elbows wih male-male/male-female connections

There are a lot of elbows and tees with wire connections. And when modifying excisting datagroup, OBD have a limitation to create these fittings. And Revit can do all fittings and also with the right image and dimensions. When will OBD do this, be...
2 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 0 Needs review