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

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...
4 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 4 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

Allow Updates to Cached Drawings with missing references

If a reference is removed from a composition model, then any cached drawings referencing Saved Views from that composition model will get an error message that prevents the cached DV from updating. There are several reasons that users may want to ...
about 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 4 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)
over 5 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural / Buildings Systems / Structural 2 Future consideration

Schedule export to XLSX

The format for Excel export from schedules should be to the modern Excel XLSX format rather than the legacy XLS one.
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration

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 ...
2 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 2 Future consideration

OBD / OBES Python API

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

Railing Prostructures section placement point

When you are choosing the Prostructures members in any of the areas the member is always Place top Center. Need to be appy to choose the placement point E.G. Centre - Center
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration