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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

Add the CAD/BIM Centers USACE BIM Object Library (UBOL) to Component Center

This would make using generic components in Government designs easier to get to.
10 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Needs review

Add an option to create Sub Assemblies

In OBD there is an option to create Assemblies. This is the form of a Cell. Once placed the cell contents no longer cells but are individual elements i.e. a wall, these are also visible in the schedules tools. this is a great function to have. How...
11 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Needs review

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...
over 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...
over 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...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 1 Future consideration

Add option to include or not Pro Structure during installation

Can you add an option to include or not 'Pro Structures' during the installation process.
11 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 3 Will not implement

Need the ability to create Vertical Louvres in a curtain wall

Currently there is no option to create a vertical louvre in a curtain wall, it is limited to horizontal only. Please can we add this Ian
11 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Planned

Overall simplification of the steps required to link a database to a datagroup catalog such as piping systems

The process to create a link between an Access database and some datagroup info is painfull at least. Manually editing xml files, making sure everything matches between properties, database columns names, units, making sure we are not using some t...
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 2 Future consideration

Link access databases to datagroup other than mechanical

It would work the same way it already does for mechanical datagroup instances. To have the ability to link an Access database to datagroups from other specialties. It would be helpful if you have codes for specs or BOQs, organized in a database. O...
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 4 Future consideration