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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.
4 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 2 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

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

Elements created in particular floor level are not pinned with that level

Elements/Beams modelled in a particular floor level are not pinned with that level and need to move manually if there is any change in level through level manager
8 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 1 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

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

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...
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 8 Future consideration

fundamental element properties within the Schedules

The DataGroup System does not provide a direct, user-configurable method to report on fundamental MicroStation element properties (e.g., raw XYZ coordinates from Range Low/High, or the element's source file name) within the Schedules tool for all ...
5 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 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 ...
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 4 Future consideration

Association of the Mark in the structural Data with the member section

Association of the 'Mark' in the structural Data section with the section size, so that it changes automatically when member modified to another section. In addition, the changes should reflect automatically in the associated annotation with reloa...
8 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 1 Needs review