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Structural Tool Open to Last Library Instead of Reset

Each time you go to place a structural member the tool resets to the base directory of the libraries. It would save a LOT of time is the tool remembered the last library list used and defaulted there instead of resetting to the beginning. It can b...
11 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 0 Already exists

Opening placement - Sense Distance = 0

As discussed in this forum post https://communities.bentley.com/products/building/building_analysis___design/f/aecosim-speedikon-forum/243581/obd-u10-wall-opening-cuts-compound-slab It is currently not possible to create an opening with "Sense dis...
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 4 Future consideration

Add cached files and live nesting funktion.

For example if we have 5(five) volume files refrenced into to a masterfile and this masterfile is referenced to a mastermodel where you take sections for 2D drawings. The 2D drawing is cached. When opening this file with live nesting set to 2, the...
12 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Needs review

Working in dwg mode and want to reference a dwg - reference options

When working in dwg mode and want to reference a dwg. The nested choice is not on. Posibility of autocad have also a overlay and attached choice. And in OBD the choice is already made. Please let the designer make the choice what he/she wants to s...
12 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Needs review

Enable parts to be placed completely on active layer

Currently when doors, windows, walls, etc. are placed when a level is set as active, the various components of the part land on different levels. The part placement actually creates levels that have been programmed into the part and cannot be chan...
12 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 2 Needs review

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.
12 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

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.
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Will not implement

Piping connection: Add option for 2x 135deg elbow

In sewer installations 90deg elbows are avoided. Instead we use 2x 135deg. It would be nice to have such an option in the "Connect" interface. Also maybe in the "Plumbing Autofitting Preferences". It might look like a small detail, certainly in th...
about 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 6 Future consideration

Space - room bounding

We need a Space option that will allow the Space to follow the geometry it is associated too. thus if the space aka walls move the Space updates to suit. Revit offers this, and it is a limitation for OBD users
about 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 3 Already exists

Program Manager Notification

If we delete files from the Design folder (our workset) and these files were used in Program Manager for Design Options, we should have notification when we start OBD that there are no these files and existing Design Option was changed.
about 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration