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Need sloped slab from compound slab option

Team needs it and creating sloped slab now is a challenge.
11 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 4 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
about 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 3 Future consideration

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...
7 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 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....
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 2 Future consideration

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 ...
7 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Write element information automatically and formatted in a property and export it to an IFC file

All information on elements such as color, length, inclinations or others can be automatically written to a property using a formula (similar to the Expression Builder) and exported to an IFC file. The values in the properties can also be combined...
4 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 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...
6 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

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...
4 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 1 Future consideration

Speed up designing with OpenBuildings Designer

I have a problem. Sometimes OBD will crash without any warning. All my projects are very big. > 10GB on third parties files. And when I want to place a pipe or a valve, it took a 8-9 seconds to show up the Place component menu. I think there mu...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 8 Future consideration

Creating new Catalog

I have copied an excisting mdb and xml file and modify all. But OBD can't design with it. Support send me here to upload this idea. Because I have design it with delivered catalog. But I have to change this, because this is not the right catalog. ...
2 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 1 Needs review