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Prostructures Ribbon

So, in OBD, you can activate a Prostructures license You are then able to place all the Prostructures items, but you need to know the key-in to get to all the Prostructures placements, It would be good if there were a way to get the Prostructures ...
about 1 month ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 0 Needs review

Table Formatting

Need to be able to format the text separately from the table lines. We also need to be able to format or change the text as a bulk action. At the moment, you need to go into each cell, format the text and move to the next cell. The other thing is ...
about 1 month ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 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...
5 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 3 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...
3 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 1 Future consideration

OBD / OBES Python API

Implement Python API for OBD and OpenBuilding Energy Simulator. Previous discussion here
about 1 month ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Future consideration

Room Ref and Room name lines when creating a new room

When tracing a new room, the window pops up to input the room reference. I want an additional line put in, so i can write the room name/description, as well as the room reference. Currently, i have to compelte tracing the room to create the room, ...
about 1 month ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 0 Needs review

Room by Room Schedule Summary

I want a facility to quickly print a schedule that shows every room within the whole building and sumamrises the area of each room and the occupancy of that room. I do not want a total for the whole building. It needs to be on a room by room basis...
about 1 month ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 0 Needs review

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...
3 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 2 Needs review

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...
4 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 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 1 Needs review