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Add IFC_Entity 'IfcSpatialZone' under the map dialogue in IFC Export

Filing this idea on behalf of B+S AG | Stefan Schöni. During the IFC export (2x3 and 4.0) not all official IFC entities and subtypes appear for selection, e.g., IfcSpatialZone incl. all subtypes are missing. How to assign modelled clearance profil...
2 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Planned

Color 255

Nowadays there are lot of BIM technique with different CAD software. If I read an IFC in OBD other CAD software use color 255 in the Part and family. So when I want to plot or create a pdf file, this color doesn't show up on paper or pdf. Because ...
2 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Needs review

Grid Systems and Floor manager

In Grid systems menu there is a possibity to import XML files. But I receive IFC or RVT files. And mostley there is a grid IFCGrid. Is it possible to import this IFCGrid into OpenBuilding and also the levels of the floor in the floor manager. Beca...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 4 Future consideration

Design Options - More than just spaces

Bentley. Can you expand the options of using design options to more than just Spaces. I feel this would be a great tool for the entire project. Ian
2 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Needs review

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 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural / Buildings Systems / Structural 2 Future consideration

Sort Saved Views (Orientation) in Attach Reference

When you attach a reference and open the Orientation, you can choose a Saved View within the file. The list shows the SVs in order of creation. It would be nice to be able to sort them (by View or Description).
10 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Use of Configuration explorer for OBD2023

For me It is easy to use Configuration Explorer to split the Delivered datasets WorkSpace an WorkSet. It will be very helpfull when support update the Configuration Explorer for OBD2023 because it is very clear. And when in Bentley learn the BIM30...
10 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration

Allow non-parametric cells to be placed as shared cells through the DG placement dialogs.

Users would like an option to place cells through the DataGroup enriched placement dialogs (as opposed to Compound Cell Manager or Cells dialog) as Shared Cells. Users have several detailed cells that are used many times in the same model. Without...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration

Associate structural elements to grid lines

Structural elements are associated to grids so changes to grid layout will propagate to associated elements, such as beams, columns, bearing walls, and footings.
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 0 Future consideration

Concatenate 2 dg properties

I would like to concatinate 2 dg properties into 1 property. Ex. DoorID = SpaceNumber+DoorNumber.
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 3 Will not implement