Analysing the effects of overheating is becoming an integral part of the design of buildings, driven by ongoing changes to the building regulations. These interactive tools for analytical modeling, exemplified by OBD's integration with Energy Simu...

When setting up the OBD build, ideally, you would have the Part (beam, column, bracing etc.) and then use the Cat to set up Beam options by type, including the Placement Point (PP). eg. Part-Beam\Cat-Primary Beam with PP set to top-centre, Part-Be...

It would be great to some quick checking tools like THERM, BL WINDOW, UcanPSI This would allow front line designers quickly evaluate their designs without having to throw things over the wall to another app or specialist consultant and waiting for...

Would it be possible to calculate the room acoustic properties in OBES? Since OBES is already tracking the thermal properties of the enclosing wall, ceiling and floor elements, it should be relatively straightforward to also include the acoustic p...

OBD has Edit-in-Exel for DGS properties. Bravo. What would be good is if the old XML-Excel Conversion Utility could 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 uses, b...

AB currently needs to have to include at least two OBD elements to create an Assembly. Or any OBD elements at all (Mstn elements only).This minimum is not aligned with Mstn behaviour which allows a single element to be defined as a Cell. Why two? ...

AB needs to support PPs. This will avert the need to manually pick change the insertion point which will be needed quite often. The new PPs introduced by platfrom are also persistent which means that when the assembly needs to be replaced, this ca...

There is a useful troubleshooting utility that can be launched from within the application (DG validation). can we provide a simple UI that will allow this utility to run without having to launch the application the Ui would allow the user to sele...

in update 7 we have introduced a new method of creating a node package, a way of simplifying many nodes down to one in some cases. This is very useful for controlling often used modelling techniques and reducing the size and complexity of the grap...

Take Schematic and or existing models data from OCP, and bring it into a design session inside OBD Create a workflow to display OBD data and geometry inside OCP