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Changing system property order

For customized properties, I can define display order, but can not define with system properties. Also it is difficult to redefine property set order. it will be good to have controls on them.
about 2 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 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....
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 2 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 4 Future consideration

DV using design history

It will be good if there is a way to use design history for DV drawing. At the end, we need to update/generate As-built drawings comparing with As-Design. Currently, we have to mark changes manually. Rather than this, it will be good to show versi...
2 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 4 Needs review

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

Write element information automatically and formatted in a property and export it to an IFC file

All information on elements such as color, length, inclinations or others can be automatically written to a property using a formula (similar to the Expression Builder) and exported to an IFC file. The values in the properties can also be combined...
7 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 3 Future consideration

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...
10 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 3 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 ...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 4 Future consideration

RFA in a Cell but not in the schedule

I must a lot of fire dampfer in a building and it is a RFA file of Solid Air. It is all the same room, So I create a cell to copy this in other rooms. But when I want to create a schedule, This is not listed in the schedule. It can also be done by...
3 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 2 Needs review

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