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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 ...
about 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 2 Future consideration

Profile tool - Perforator Option

OBD's Profile tool is quite powerful. A lot of building elements are linear and can be modeled this way. Mstn's new Perforator tool is also powerful as it complements solid modeling by providing the 'negative' of solids ie voids. Together, both fu...
about 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration

Improvement in Family/Parts Editor and Catalog Editor

Hi, It will be appreciate to have a better respect of the general Windows convention in these two dialog boxes. 1) They are similar but they are working differently 2) When an entity is editable in the tree or in the listview (right side), F...
about 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration

2D section export from Imodels

When cutting a section in an Imodel within the Design review environment it would be good if a user could export that 2D section as a DGN file?
about 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Digital Twins 3 Needs review

Add Carbon Emission Index/rate parameters

As there is an increase awareness on carbon emission and a need to calculate the embedded carbon rate per volume of material assigned in the model, it should be time for this parameter to be included and rate set based on standard EC rate. Current...
about 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Floor Manager and Grid tools should recognise Coordinate Systems and enable defined building locations

On large projects, with multiple (& repeated) buildings it is common to model the building around the file origin, and then reference/place into actual location. The current system does not recognise if the refernce is moved, so the floor mana...
about 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration

Upgrade design file cleanup tool to work with building elements

in basic MS the design file cleanup tool is very useful at removing duplicate elements, this should be upgraded to work with Building elements such as walls, doors, windows(and all objects) and structural elements also.
about 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 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 ...
over 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...
over 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 1 Future consideration

Urban Heat Island Effect Modeling

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...
over 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 0 Needs review