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Clean-up Walls in 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 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural / Structural Future consideration

Multi-catalog search in Placement Panel

Add new search option in Catalog Item Selector that lets you search for any catalog item in your loaded libraries, regardless of element type selected at the top of the dialog. A single search for "wood" might return doors, walls, and a couple tab...
over 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer Future consideration

Fill Option Control

Provide 3 options to all cut elements in a view: No fill, solid fill (black or gray), or original fill, instead of the current system which only shows the cut fills defined in the Part/Family system
over 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural Future consideration

Constrain elements to reference planes

Add constraint to elements (such as walls) to have their height or placement location to be defined relative to floor above, floor below, or other plane defined in Floor Manager. This would cause elements to change their element height and/or moun...
over 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Future consideration

Space Volume property

The ability to automatically calculate space volume property which can be reflected in schedules.
over 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural Future consideration

Multi-layer Annotation

Ability to place annotations that lists all layers in the correct order with properties (width, materials, etc.).
over 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 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.
about 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural Future consideration

room ref numbers on the layout cannot be relocated

Sometimes we do not have room references from architects and we need to create them ourselves. We need to be able to show clearly the location of particular room on the layout - it can be done in wireframe top view. Unfortunately sometimes room nu...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services Future consideration

Penetrations: Overrides

Support for overrides would be a big productivity booster. Overlaps with Ideas / worflows for: 1. Penetration Object level rules / configs. Progressive refinement of low LOD rules into higher LOD rules via a 'parent - children' sub-classing workfl...
over 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Future consideration

Penetrations: Managment of follow on associations / call backs.

The PM apparently records the call backs triggered by Mstn's tools that manipulate / modify the cutting / cut elements for each Penetration object. When the user triggers an Update, the PM dialog is updated and the PO is updated in the model. It w...
over 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Future consideration