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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

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...
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 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

2D section export from Imodels

When cutting a section in an Imodel within the Design review environment it would be good if a user could export that 2D section as a DGN file?
about 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Digital Twins 3 Needs review

Scale-sensitive hatch

Adjust crosshatch patterns and symbolic fill spacing to plotting scale in each view.
over 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Future consideration

Drawings: Resymbolizing files(IFC,3DM, DWG, ITwin, etc) from different applications when referenced in OpenBuildings

An OpenBuildings Civil Structural user may need to reference an iTwin model of a bridge design. The OpenBuildings user may need to represent the concrete of the bridge in section with a concrete hatch including unification of separate concrete obj...
about 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration

Place Wall by Space / Shape - Segment option

It would be good to include this option. Its very rare that all sides of the space or room will have the same wall type. The user ends up having to delete or mod most of the walls or even worse not using the tool at all. With this option, the OBD ...
8 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

Modify Properties tool in Modify Instance Data Panel

Seems like Properties in Mstn are not talking to the DGS-led properties in OBD. It would be good to provide better synching between yje Modify Properties tool and the Modify Instance Data Panel. Eventually a unified panel? Enhancement Request # 11...
about 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Future consideration

Add Instance Data - Mapping tool

Could the Add Instance Data tool be enhanced to provide some means of linking the object's Properties to the DGS information, please? Link to previous discussion back 2015. There seems to quite a lot of progress with Expressions which can extract ...
about 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Future consideration

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...
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration