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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
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 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...
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Future consideration

Space Volume property

The ability to automatically calculate space volume property which can be reflected in schedules.
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

Multi-layer Annotation

Ability to place annotations that lists all layers in the correct order with properties (width, materials, etc.).
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 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.
9 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 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...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration

Export OBD Structural to Dlubal RFEM 6

For our structural analysis we are currently using the new RFEM 6 from Dlubal-Software and for the design part we are using Openbuildings Designer.In our BIM oriented projects we exchange our data between RFEM 6 and Openbuildings Designer mostly b...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 0 Needs review

line styles selector

Display all Line Styles as cells in Cell Selector
9 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Needs review

accudraw index colour

The Accudraw compass has a red and green marking for the axes. I'd like those colours also om the xy in the Accudra dialog.
9 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Needs review

Floor manager => Rotate floor/building by points

Similar as in the Grid manager we need the option for the floor manager to "Rotate by points" so that a building can be positioned and rotated properly.
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration