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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 ...
5 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 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

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

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

Creating native Revit files

Native Revit file Here in Holland the Architect, contructions, mechanical and Electric firms demand to use Revit. In their BIM protocols they demand to collaborate with RVT and IFC files. They demand me to collaborate this way. I don't have any so...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 5 Needs review

IFC entity mapping for subcomponents of Curtain Wall

The subcomponents Panels and Mullions of Curtain Wall now mapped to IfcBuildingElementProxy in IfcEntity when exported to IFC4 in OpenBuildings. Tried to modify the mapping options in the IFC Export dialog or edit the IFC_PartMapping_ifc4.set to a...
5 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 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)
about 5 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural / Buildings Systems / Structural 2 Future consideration

Sprinklerhead rfa import

When I import the rfa file of a sprinklerhead, I can't choose the datagroup of a sprinkler system. Because Sprinkler is a different disciplin in Mechanical world. It is a safety. And OBD have a menu for Sprinkler called "Fire protection", but if i...
2 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 0 Needs review

Model Audit tool

We have a series of very large infrastructure projects ie Rail station, airport , football stadium etc. typically these project contain several hundred DGN files and many more 2d files. In terms of 3d DGN files, one thing we are lacking is an AUDI...
2 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Needs review

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