There is a new mechanical process to make a stub in a pipe for a sprinklerhead. They melt a hole in the pipe with a mechanical object and make a thread in the hole with the dimensions of the sprinklerhead. And the sprinklerhead can be screwed in t...

Addressing overheating due to solar gain is increasingly a big problem for building designers, and is now also a statutory requirement. OBD/OBES/Hevacomp is well placed to provide an analytical design tool that provides quick feedback to the facad...

Filing this idea on behalf of B+S AG | Stefan Schöni. During the IFC export (2x3 and 4.0) not all official IFC entities and subtypes appear for selection, e.g., IfcSpatialZone incl. all subtypes are missing. How to assign modelled clearance profil...

A correct steel beam with rounded corners is ofcourse looking better in a shaded view. But it is problematic in drawings front view as it will produce a lot of lines. Try an ifc from Revit or Tekla and you will see. Best would be if OBD could filt...

Nowadays there are lot of BIM technique with different CAD software. If I read an IFC in OBD other CAD software use color 255 in the Part and family. So when I want to plot or create a pdf file, this color doesn't show up on paper or pdf. Because ...

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...

Bentley. Can you expand the options of using design options to more than just Spaces. I feel this would be a great tool for the entire project. Ian

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...

OBD has Edit-in-Excel for DGS properties. Bravo. What would be good is if the old XML-Excel Conversion Utility could be used to provide an Excel-based route to editing all that XML-based info that OBD needs... .xsd, F&P, etc, etc etc Has its u...

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...