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Rounded Corners for Handrails

OBD tool should have parameter to round the corners (and ends) of the handrails? This is very common and required by the UK Bldg Regs. Also a big no-no for public stairs in stations for safety reasons. Dropping the handrail and trying to use the M...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

A new command for "Springpipe" (Stub that must have a negative value)

There is a new mechanical process to make a stub in a pipe for a sprinklerhead. They melt a hole in the pipe with a mechanical object and make a thread in the hole with the dimensions of the sprinklerhead. And the sprinklerhead can be screwed in t...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 2 Future consideration

Parametric Cell Variations and Control

My understanding is that when assigning a parametric cell to a datagroup definiton, if that parametric cell contains a set of variations only one variation can be used or applied. Thus if I need to use all three variations I must create 3 datagrou...
over 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer 1 Planned

filter out geometry from rounded steel profiles

A correct steel beam with rounded corners is ofcourse looking better in a shaded view. But it is problematic in drawings front view as it will produce a lot of lines. Try an ifc from Revit or Tekla and you will see. Best would be if OBD could filt...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Already exists

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

Penetrations: Config/Rule per Penetration Object

The new Penetrations tool introduced in U10 is pretty promising. But, the current assumption that there a large 'classes' of Penetrations is flawed. There also needs to be a way to support Penetration rules/ config at Penetration level. Each Penet...
about 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 1 Future consideration

Named Group xsd for DataGroup System

It would be great to provide a way to assign a Named Group to any placed Objects and Assemblies, including the OOTB objects like Walls, Slabs etc. This will allow the user to manipulate multiple elements efficiently without having to nest within a...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Will not implement

Automatic DataGroup upgrade after schema changes

When DG schema is changed some tools (incl. Edit Properties, IFC Export) do no work proper until user manually run DG Upgrade tool.Same time user has no indication he needs to upgrade. It may happen when user opens old dgn with newer OBD version o...
about 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer 0 Future consideration

Structural Tool Open to Last Library Instead of Reset

Each time you go to place a structural member the tool resets to the base directory of the libraries. It would save a LOT of time is the tool remembered the last library list used and defaulted there instead of resetting to the beginning. It can b...
9 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 0 Already exists