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Add curve to Curtain wall

The current Curtain Wall tool in OBD10 doesn't allow you to create a Curtain wall that contains a curve or a complex shape. With the new style buildings that are being designed, there are very few buildings that do not have some sort of curved roo...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 2 Future consideration

English translation: Please add a design for fixing points in the pipe support. The fixed support of the pipe system (i.e., all three-way displacements must be constrained to 0) requires a combination of a guide and a limit support. Two hangers will be generated when generating the hanger. Original text: 请在pipe的支架中增加固定点的设计。管系的固定支架(即三向位移都要被约束为0)需要用一个导向加一个限位支架组合,生成支吊架的时候会出现两个支吊架.

请在pipe的支架中增加固定点的设计。管系的固定支架(即三向位移都要被约束为0)需要用一个导向加一个限位支架组合,生成支吊架的时候会出现两个支吊架。请增加一个固定支架选项English translation: Please add a design for fixing points in the pipe support. The fixed support for the pipe system (i.e. all three-way displacements are constr...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 1 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 ...
almost 6 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Planned

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 ...
almost 6 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural / Structural 0 Future consideration

Allow special characters in attribute names

We would like to specify the units with a suffix in the attributes, e.g. "Schichtstaerke_[mm]". Unfortunately, square brackets and other special characters are not allowed. We ask you to program this so that special characters are also allowed. Wi...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Place PS Member Mirrored

Very handy option we had with OBD members was to place a member mirrored. Great for modelling channel sections.
over 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 2 Planned

Change multiple catalog items

When I want to change multiple catalog items, itable, hidden, and parametric name data, I can only do it one by one. Changing this data for all items or groups of items is not possible. It would be a good idea to be able to select all, a gro...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 4 Already exists

Individuell erzeugte Bauteile mit dem Zeichnungsfilter bearbeiten

Individuell erzeugte Bauteile mit dem Zeichnungsfilter bearbeiten. Individuell erzeugte Bauteile werden für den Unternehmensstandard benötigt. Die nachträgliche Anpassung im Zeichnungsfilter ist erforderlich und erleichtert die tägliche Arbeit er...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Speedikon 0 Future consideration

Scale-sensitive hatch

Adjust crosshatch patterns and symbolic fill spacing to plotting scale in each view.
over 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 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