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Spot Elevations that work across nested Refs

Very old request! Pretty much every other BIM app handles this without any fuss. Not sure why Bentley seems to struggle with this. We need to be able to extract and report height elevation info based on a user defined coordinate system (usually th...
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

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...
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

Data of Manufacturer

There are a lot of data on the internet from manufacturers. For the Building design system, it would be very nice to use real measurements of the manufacturers. For example, there is a data group of Victaulic implemented in Bentley Open Plant. htt...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 3 Planned

Unify different parts in each drawing

It would be a good idea if in a drawing you could override part join configurations and create a new configuration for that drawing. For example, join all the walls, pillars, partitions, etc. in a floor plan or only join the walls of the same mate...
9 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

Allow option to remove Context Menu items that are not loaded in from the GUI.dgnlib

The right click context menus have items that are loaded into it from outside a dgn library, provide method to show /hide all context menu items, not just the ones designated thorough a dgn.lib file.
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Needs review

Family and part tab in PCS

In Parametric Cell Studio OBD CE 2023, the tab to indicate Family and part is not shown. The attribute must be indicated manually. More time and more mistakes. Requested: Adding the family and part tab for PCS components See explanatory image.
9 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 3 Will not implement

Modify PAZ with Parametric Cell Studio

When a PAZ cell is modified with PCS, the modified copy appears at point 0,0,0. The previous copy remains. It is requested: change this behavior and replace the modified cell in its place of placement, as it worked in OBD V8i See attached video
9 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Needs review

Reconstruct hidden wall joints

Problem: Two walls with different parts that unify each other (section and F/R view). A wall must be demolished. The other wall must be maintained. If we visualize the two walls, we see the current state. The two walls are shown joined. This is...
9 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

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...
over 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer 0 Future consideration

New data for spaces: Net Volume

At the moment we find two different data for areas: net area and gross area. However, there is only one volume available that can be shared in plans and spreadsheets: the gross volume, calculated as gross area * room height. In order to have an ov...
9 months ago in OpenBuildings Speedikon 1 Needs review