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Penetrations: Bulk Edit in Excel and Synch back to OBD

Penetrations are quite complicated and not easily defined by a few rules. The current selection of rules I think will be quickly overwhelmed. As such, I can see most people decoupling the Penetration objects from the PM as soon as possible, then e...
about 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Clash detection report automation

See this thread https://communities.bentley.com/products/building/building_analysis___design/f/aecosim-speedikon-forum/234812/report-on-clash/738991#738991 The way we use it now is in a teams session with all consultants. I share my screen and run...
about 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 2 Will not implement

Staircase volume in quantity property tab

Want to see the concrete volume for staircase in quantity properties tab.
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 5 Needs review

Add "Date Modified" to Model Dialog

Similar to how you have a "Date modified" in Windows Explorer as a way to sort a list of files. I always have countless models in the dialog, where many are reiterations of the same model, and would like to sort them by "date last modified". This ...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Needs review

Create wall from space in Reference file

Currently the place wall tool has the option "From space". This works well as long as the space is in the active model. I'd like it to work also if the space is in a referenced model. It seems that with the current implementation, using this tool ...
about 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 2 Future consideration

Drawing rules: label offset centered

It could be useful to add a "Center" options for the label offset in (structural) rules. Now there is only "Above" and "Below", which makes sense in combination with single line resymbolization. However for eg. concrete beams that are wide enough ...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 1 Future consideration

Structural rules based on DG Catalog

For Architectural and Mechanical drawing rules it is already possible to use the DG catalog to assign a rule to the elements it must be applied to. For Structural drawing rules only the Family/Part can be used. Please provide similar functionality...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 1 Future consideration

Have the cut section annotation bubble show the saved view name, without the need to pace it in a sheet

There are two moments where we use cut sections - when we are preparing drawigns for publishing, and also when we just need to see some geometry in a specific way to better help understand the construction. Its really difficult, after creating a f...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Needs review

Improved space quantities

The IFC schema allows for a lot more quantities on an ifcSpace (Qto_SpaceBaseQuantities): https://standards.buildingsmart.org/IFC/RELEASE/IFC4/ADD2_TC1/HTML/schema/ifcproductextension/qset/qto_spacebasequantities.htm. Please implement those in OBD...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 3 Future consideration

Define spaces on Dataset, Workspace and Workset levels

For most building elements the Datagroup System allows for 'Definitions' and Catalog Types/Items on multiple levels: Dataset, Workspace and Workset. Spaces on the contrary don't allow this flexibility. They are set on a "System" level. It is curre...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration