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Titlebox for printouts

I am former Hevacomp user. There I had option to add a title box to layout printout, so client was presented with project number, building name, scale etc. It looked professional and helped to avoid mistakes. Not sure why it is not available on En...
about 1 month ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 0 Needs review

Need sloped slab from compound slab option

Team needs it and creating sloped slab now is a challenge.
9 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 3 Future consideration

Spaces are not in alphabetical order

Spaces appear in the project tree in order of tracing and not in alphabetical order. The trouble is it cannot be changed and it is being replicated in all the results and reports. Numbers are often a part of room names, so I often end up with room...
about 2 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 0 Needs review

New tool: Perimeter Fence Tool

a large Bentley account (Big Ticket Project) is asking for a new Feature/Tool in creating a parametric Perimeter Fence. this feature shall; it behaves and be placed like a Railing tool or a Curtain Wall Tool. it follows the profile: linear Type &a...
4 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 3 Future consideration

Add ability to cut a curtain wall with a shape

Hi Support. I have been trying to offset the top front face of a mullion of the top row of a CW and set it back by 20mm. Sadly this is not possible, the profile tool will not allow it. I then thought maybe I can use the cut tool and achieve the sa...
3 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Needs review

Sprinklerhead rfa import

When I import the rfa file of a sprinklerhead, I can't choose the datagroup of a sprinkler system. Because Sprinkler is a different disciplin in Mechanical world. It is a safety. And OBD have a menu for Sprinkler called "Fire protection", but if i...
about 1 month ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 0 Needs review

Model Audit tool

We have a series of very large infrastructure projects ie Rail station, airport , football stadium etc. typically these project contain several hundred DGN files and many more 2d files. In terms of 3d DGN files, one thing we are lacking is an AUDI...
about 1 month ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Needs review

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....
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 1 Needs review

Parametric Frame/Cell Builder

There is currently no effective means to generate and update Parametric / Compound Cells. Including the proxy view dependent geometry is key to reducing BV,DV generation times. Also needed to automate and coordinate detail drawing production. The ...
4 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Create datagroup for elbows wih male-male/male-female connections

There are a lot of elbows and tees with wire connections. And when modifying excisting datagroup, OBD have a limitation to create these fittings. And Revit can do all fittings and also with the right image and dimensions. When will OBD do this, be...
about 2 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 0 Needs review