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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...
over 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.
over 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.).
over 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Future consideration

filter out geometry from rounded steel profiles

A correct steel beam with rounded corners is ofcourse looking better in a shaded view. But it is problematic in drawings front view as it will produce a lot of lines. Try an ifc from Revit or Tekla and you will see. Best would be if OBD could filt...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Already exists

Match Wall perforator

When creating families and parts i/e/ a door, we need an option to MATCH Wall. This was available in PCS, but not in MS or OBD. As it stands you need to place a 3d slab that is your perforator = your cut depth. This s very limited. We need an opti...
10 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 2 Needs review

Named Group xsd for DataGroup System

It would be great to provide a way to assign a Named Group to any placed Objects and Assemblies, including the OOTB objects like Walls, Slabs etc. This will allow the user to manipulate multiple elements efficiently without having to nest within a...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Will not implement

Use Text with (Fx) functionality

When filling a textcode using the funtionality of f(x) you can choose a lot of data used or filled in the component you've add in your model. But when you copied the component a view times in the model, you want to use the functionality of the tex...
11 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 0 Needs review

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

Part O Overheating Assessment Tool

Addressing overheating due to solar gain is increasingly a big problem for building designers, and is now also a statutory requirement. OBD/OBES/Hevacomp is well placed to provide an analytical design tool that provides quick feedback to the facad...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 0 Planned

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