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accudraw index colour

The Accudraw compass has a red and green marking for the axes. I'd like those colours also om the xy in the Accudra dialog.
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Will not implement

Create wall from space in Reference file

Currently the place wall tool has the option "From space". This works well as long as the space is in the active model. I'd like it to work also if the space is in a referenced model. It seems that with the current implementation, using this tool ...
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 2 Future consideration

Drawing rules: label offset centered

It could be useful to add a "Center" options for the label offset in (structural) rules. Now there is only "Above" and "Below", which makes sense in combination with single line resymbolization. However for eg. concrete beams that are wide enough ...
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 1 Future consideration

Structural rules based on DG Catalog

For Architectural and Mechanical drawing rules it is already possible to use the DG catalog to assign a rule to the elements it must be applied to. For Structural drawing rules only the Family/Part can be used. Please provide similar functionality...
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 1 Future consideration

Improved space quantities

The IFC schema allows for a lot more quantities on an ifcSpace (Qto_SpaceBaseQuantities): https://standards.buildingsmart.org/IFC/RELEASE/IFC4/ADD2_TC1/HTML/schema/ifcproductextension/qset/qto_spacebasequantities.htm. Please implement those in OBD...
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 3 Future consideration

Define spaces on Dataset, Workspace and Workset levels

For most building elements the Datagroup System allows for 'Definitions' and Catalog Types/Items on multiple levels: Dataset, Workspace and Workset. Spaces on the contrary don't allow this flexibility. They are set on a "System" level. It is curre...
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

external edit rights for non-active Model

Make it possible for 'another' user to open and edit a all Models in a file except for the Model I have active.
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Will not implement

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
almost 3 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 ...
almost 3 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.
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Will not implement