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'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

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...
over 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...
over 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration

tool to create and update drawing schedule

It will save some time, reduce risk of mistakes and it will take away boring work and make you happier in front of OBD.
10 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Needs review

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 ...
10 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer 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 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 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...
about 5 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer 0 Future consideration

Match Element in Modify Properties panel - Always Active

The Match Element properties tool is currently available only while placing a new element. This restricts the type of elements it can match and forces the user to query the element to find out its kind, hop around to different tools. This is a lot...
over 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Planned

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...
over 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

XML-Excel Conversion Utility 2.0

OBD has Edit-in-Excel for DGS properties. Bravo. What would be good is if the old XML-Excel Conversion Utility could be used to provide an Excel-based route to editing all that XML-based info that OBD needs... .xsd, F&P, etc, etc etc Has its u...
over 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration