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Material alignment

If you have a building that contain a series of walls, if the building is rotated away from the horizontal and apply materials via the family and parts. when the building is cut the materials are never aligned with building ie a wall (see image) I...
12 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Needs review

Data of RFA files

Data of RFA files, OBD doesn't read correctly to create schedules automaticly
12 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 1 Needs review

room ref numbers on the layout cannot be relocated

Sometimes we do not have room references from architects and we need to create them ourselves. We need to be able to show clearly the location of particular room on the layout - it can be done in wireframe top view. Unfortunately sometimes room nu...
12 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 2 Future consideration

Being able to input a ceiling plenum after an exposed ceiling design change

Currently there is no way to change from an exposed ceiling design to now a ceiling plenum without starting again once created. Designs change so this should be an easy change also
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Needs review

OBD Selects references

I want to lock references to prevent them from being selected.
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 2 Already exists

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.
about 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

Rhino inside

HI Bentley I was just looking at Revit/Rhino/Grasshopper and they are all linked via a tool called Rhino Inside. https://www.rhino3d.com/inside/revit/1.0/ When revit, rhino and grasshopper are linked, the tool sets are added to each of the 3 appli...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Needs review

Resymbolising centerlines with Display Rules

It would be very useful if we could control the appearance of centerlines using the Display Rules
about 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Needs review

Clean-up Walls in References

In a federated model, if I have 2 walls in separate files, it can be very difficult to clean up walls that are interacting between different models. We need to allow the Connect Wall tool (specifically connect as L Parallel and Connect Forms as L ...
about 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural / Structural 0 Future consideration

Multi-catalog search in Placement Panel

Add new search option in Catalog Item Selector that lets you search for any catalog item in your loaded libraries, regardless of element type selected at the top of the dialog. A single search for "wood" might return doors, walls, and a couple tab...
about 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer 0 Future consideration