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Opening placement - Sense Distance = 0

As discussed in this forum post https://communities.bentley.com/products/building/building_analysis___design/f/aecosim-speedikon-forum/243581/obd-u10-wall-opening-cuts-compound-slab It is currently not possible to create an opening with "Sense dis...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 4 Future consideration

Piping connection: Add option for 2x 135deg elbow

In sewer installations 90deg elbows are avoided. Instead we use 2x 135deg. It would be nice to have such an option in the "Connect" interface. Also maybe in the "Plumbing Autofitting Preferences". It might look like a small detail, certainly in th...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 6 Future consideration

Program Manager Notification

If we delete files from the Design folder (our workset) and these files were used in Program Manager for Design Options, we should have notification when we start OBD that there are no these files and existing Design Option was changed.
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

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...
over 2 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...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Models in VERIFY PARTS

With many Models in a file it would help a lot if you could filter what is in a separate Model. Verify Parts is very useful tool and simple to use. Really a prototype for how tools should be.
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

Create wall from space in Reference file

Currently the place wall tool has the option "From space". This works well as long as the space is in the active model. I'd like it to work also if the space is in a referenced model. It seems that with the current implementation, using this tool ...
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 2 Future consideration

Drawing rules: label offset centered

It could be useful to add a "Center" options for the label offset in (structural) rules. Now there is only "Above" and "Below", which makes sense in combination with single line resymbolization. However for eg. concrete beams that are wide enough ...
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 1 Future consideration

Structural rules based on DG Catalog

For Architectural and Mechanical drawing rules it is already possible to use the DG catalog to assign a rule to the elements it must be applied to. For Structural drawing rules only the Family/Part can be used. Please provide similar functionality...
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 1 Future consideration

Improved space quantities

The IFC schema allows for a lot more quantities on an ifcSpace (Qto_SpaceBaseQuantities): https://standards.buildingsmart.org/IFC/RELEASE/IFC4/ADD2_TC1/HTML/schema/ifcproductextension/qset/qto_spacebasequantities.htm. Please implement those in OBD...
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 3 Future consideration