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New pipe system for OBD

There are for OBD new pipe. There is no command to design these pipes. The pipes are in a role. See link. If I must design it with flexible command. This is very slow and not workable. https://www.warmteservice.nl/Installatiemateriaal/Leidingsyste...
7 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 0 Future consideration

Mstn Parametric Solids Variables in DGS

When the DGS be able to interact with the variables that come with and drive Functional Cells? Link to discussion five years ago
over 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration

OBD / OBES Python API

Implement Python API for OBD and OpenBuilding Energy Simulator. Previous discussion here
8 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Future consideration

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 complete tracing the room to create it, then r...
8 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 2 Future consideration

Room by Room Schedule Summary

I want a facility to quickly print a schedule that shows every room within the whole building and summarizes 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...
8 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 2 Needs review

One Click Dimension (with opening width)

If we can pick a wall and get an instant Dimension, maybe with Opening width as additional Information, it would accelerate the Plan Layout. Attached a GIF showing the idea in a sample macro created some years ago. Optional these dimensions could ...
over 5 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Planned

Option to ungroup components placed as array parametric solid

Filing this idea on behalf of B+S AG | Stefan Schöni. While using the command "Array parametric solid feature", the components are 'grouped' - this is still the case in the IFC file. This means that no evaluations can be made because, for example,...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Clean-up Walls(and other forms) Through References

In a federated model, if I have 2 walls in separate files, it can be very difficult to clean up walls that are interacting between different models. We need to allow the Connect Wall tool (specifically connect as L Parallel and Connect Forms as L ...
over 5 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural / Structural 0 Future consideration

grid balloon text

When you create a GRID system and define the Grid balloons, if the grid is not orthogonal to the view ie a building is not horizontal, when the grid is placed, the balloon text is placed at an odd angle. These text are unable to be rotated to the ...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

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 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration