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Curtain Wall Tool: Tubular Walls

It would be great if the Curtain Wall tool would also cater for polar coordinate systems, and the geometry issues that come from them. Link to previous discussion
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

Enhance All Triforma Form Modification tools to take multiple inputs

Looking at the old Triforma Form manipulation tools, it is amazing how inconsistent they are and how badly they support dealing with multiple or 'many' elements. Forcing the user to manually click and feed the tools one element at a time. This is ...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 3 Needs review

Remove Instance Data tool <> Cell/Nesting

It would be good to enhance the Remove Instance Data tool so that it can tunnel into cells. Link to previous discussion.
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Will not implement

Wall Cleanup + Cells

TF_UNIFY_CELL_CHILDREN is a great setting. Apparently can slow things down so something to combine with CVEs? Currently works for these conditions: Wall to Wall. OK Wall to Cell Wall. OK Cell Wall to Cell Wall. OK Cell Wall to Wall-in-Ref. OK Wall...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 3 Future consideration

Add Instance Data tool <> Cell/Nesting

It would be good to enhance the Add Instance Data tool so that it can tunnel into cells. Link to previous discussion See also ADO PBI 901466: DataGroups: Modify Instance Data Enhancements Another link
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Assembly Builder - Replace Assembly Workflow / Tool

It is recognised that components and assemblies need to be replaced intelligently. This is supported at platform level by the Replace Cell tool. Assemblies provide a way to for users to insert a lot of stuff. They will eventually need to manage th...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

SNDF Export to export everything including all non structural members.

Currently the sndf export just exports structural members and non structural members such as handrail, grating, concrete goes missing. This will help the sndf export to have the whole model without missing geometry.
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 1 Will not implement

Color tabel slection in Create Drawing dialog

When you use Creat View tools and the Creat Drawing dialog appears it would be nice to be able to set the specific color table for Creat Drawing Model, and Creat sheet Model. For example, the Seedfile you select when naming the file. pick the colo...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Needs review

IFC Spatial Containment - Multi select and assign floor to files.

When exporting IFC and when working with projects that contain multiple buildings, there is no single way to assign the reference files to a single building. Every reference within the file path has to be selected seperately to assign the building...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Needs review

Search Field in Attributes

I would be helpful if "search field" is available in custom attribute which has long list of drop down options. For example in place column tool, section name has search field.
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Needs review