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Color code AccuDraw dialog

The AccuDraw compass is rotated to the element snapped to. Very often not to view xy. So the x and y fields in the AccuDraw dialog are not view xy. Very unintuitive. Like in the attached video. The AccuDraw compass has a red and green marking for ...
9 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer 1 Needs review

IFC Spatial Containment - Multi select and assign floor to files.

When exporting IFC and when working with projects that contain multiple buildings, there is no single way to assign the reference files to a single building. Every reference within the file path has to be selected seperately to assign the building...
about 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Needs review

Duplicate parts - Catalog Editor

Can we add an option within the Catalog Editor to expose the file name that the duplicate parts reside in. Within the Catalog editor, there are tow columns (left and right). in the left hand side you see just one duplicate part. within the section...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 1 Future consideration

Allow special characters in attribute names

We would like to specify the units with a suffix in the attributes, e.g. "Schichtstaerke_[mm]". Unfortunately, square brackets and other special characters are not allowed. We ask you to program this so that special characters are also allowed. Wi...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Schedule wall layers/components - display the actual wall family/part

In OBD > 10 you can schedule a single wall and wall assembly. However, what you cannot do is schedule the wall assembly layers aka sub walls and maintain their real family/part names. OBD will schedule them as 'Default' walls rather than the ac...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 2 Future consideration

Automated reductions in reported floor area

Rule system to reduce area/volume of rooms based on sloped elements above, such as roofs and stairs, niches and floor-to-ceiling windows, and columns, in space reports
almost 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Future consideration

'Protrusions' on cuts for Dynamic Views

See https://communities.bentley.com/products/building/building_analysis___design/f/aecosim-speedikon-forum/245449/section-with-an-angle/770822 Possible to place cut/Dynamic View level so it goes through door, windows etc on same floor even if they...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 3 Needs review

Create space by flood on Referenced geometry

Currently the "Create space - Flood Area" only works on geometry in the active model. I'd be nice to also be able to use it with referenced geometry. See also Idea 138 - Create wall from space in Referenced File. Making this possible would probabl...
about 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 5 Already exists

Add Carbon Emission Index/rate parameters

As there is an increase awareness on carbon emission and a need to calculate the embedded carbon rate per volume of material assigned in the model, it should be time for this parameter to be included and rate set based on standard EC rate. Current...
about 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Floor Manager and Grid tools should recognise Coordinate Systems and enable defined building locations

On large projects, with multiple (& repeated) buildings it is common to model the building around the file origin, and then reference/place into actual location. The current system does not recognise if the refernce is moved, so the floor mana...
about 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration