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Calculated parameters for OBD elements

In today's BIM world the "I" of information becomes more and more important. This information is driven mostly by the properties attached to an element, more than by it's geometry. OBD already has a lot of built-in properties, also when it comes t...
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration

ProStructures Object View Center in OBD

It would be good to integrate OVC into OBD. Very few will be able to justify paying for the PS license just to get OVC inspite of its benefits. Link to previous discussion. OVC would also be very useful enabling tool for updating OBD's Place Objec...
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Future consideration

Compound Slab - from Mesh Option

The new CS tool looks very limited in scope. It would be good to extend its viability by supporting meshes. Flooring is rarely level or flat when you look across a project. It would be good to have an option that is based on Mstn's Thicken tool th...
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Future consideration

Assembly Builder - Constraints Support

Any Constraints applied to the Mstn elements seem to be stripped out when the Assembly is placed. Apparently, this is a 'voluntary' decision by the Mstn team. Item Types seem to make it through OK which is good. It would be good to bypass this 'vo...
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Export OBD Structural to Dlubal RFEM 6

For our structural analysis we are currently using the new RFEM 6 from Dlubal-Software and for the design part we are using Openbuildings Designer.In our BIM oriented projects we exchange our data between RFEM 6 and Openbuildings Designer mostly b...
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 0 Needs review

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...
about 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 4 Future consideration

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

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...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 0 Already exists

Add cached files and live nesting function

For example, if we have 5(five) volume files referenced into 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 ...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 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...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 2 Needs review