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Need sloped slab from compound slab option

Team needs it and creating sloped slab now is a challenge.
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 4 Future consideration

Open RVT files directly

It would be great to be able to open RVT files without having to use iTwins. Increasingly using BricsCAD BIM to open up RVT files to look at what is inside. Works great! A lot of manufacturers are providing their content as RVT files, instead of s...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration

Modifying Forms applying cuts and chamfer to keep them as form not converting them to a solid.

In the Modify Forms there a tool labeled chamfer and others but not actually chamfering the form, converting to a solid and then losing all the data the form has. On the note adding a slab thickening the slab would also be good.
3 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 2 Needs review

Convert - Change a Solid into a Form

If you place a "dumb solid" it has no instance data, you can then add instance data to the solid. The issue is that when you the schedule the solid has not got the same information as the form, manly in the volume, mass, perimeter and top and bott...
3 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Needs review

Removing or reassigning instance data does not work after placing OBD elements. German: Instanzdaten entfernen bzw. neu zuordnen funktioniert nach dem Platzieren von OBD-Elementen nicht

Removing or reassigning instance data no longer works after placing OBD elements (walls, railings, steel beams, profiles, etc.). German: Instanzdaten entfernen bzw. neu zuordnen funktioniert nach dem Platzieren von OBD-Elementen (Wänden, Geländer,...
10 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Needs review

Double Angles and Channels as 2 Single Angles

The Combined shape option is too time consuming to create for this content. It also does not transfer to other applications (ProStructures, TEKLA, Etc.). These applications want to display them as two separate angles. The spacing is dictated by th...
10 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 2 Already exists

Set Active Grids per selected building

current 'set active grids' function select all buildings defined in floor manager as default. It will be good to turn on only selected building in Floor Selector as default.
5 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Future consideration

Definition editor string property limited to 255

When a property is defined as string in definition editor despite there are fields where you can declare the maximum and minimun length, the program trunks the string at 255 characters instead the number you define as maximum length
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 3 Future consideration

Railing with baseboard

The problem is that it is not possible to use a flat iron profile from the standard catalog because this profile is always placed horizontally instead of vertically on the railing. I have not found a way to place the profile rotated by 90 degrees....
about 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 2 Future consideration

Allow Geometry to be constrained by Floor

A heavily requested feature is to allow objects to be constrained by floor plane. If the floor level adjusts the geometry adjusts. Reference planes with object associations (Speedikon GAP analysis)
almost 6 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural / Buildings Systems / Structural 4 Future consideration