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Profile tool - Perforator Option

OBD's Profile tool is quite powerful. A lot of building elements are linear and can be modeled this way. Mstn's new Perforator tool is also powerful as it complements solid modeling by providing the 'negative' of solids ie voids. Together, both fu...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration

Add height of opening to width dimensions

When dimensioning the width of a door or window, show the height of the opening below the dimension line (in accordance with DIN standard)
about 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Future consideration

Project Manager tool

A single dialog to manage project settings, files, configuration variables, workset, dataset, and other options for OBD projects
about 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Filled Visible Edges in "Cached" view

The fact that element fill in display style "Filled Visible Edges" only works when Visible Edge setting is set to "Dynamic" is really annoying! For example making Elevation drawings wanting to use a simple fill on steel SW panels or window/door fr...
about 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 3 Future consideration

Apply Part and Family to elements in group "orphan cell"

When you group elements it creates an orphan cell so when you apply Part and Family it only applies to the Cell Header not all the elements in the Group "orphan cell". Need to have a "Change Whole Elements" like there is in the Change tool. And on...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 1 Future consideration

Parametric cell and repeated drawing symbols

In Parametric Cell Studio, lines, rectangles, etc. could be repeated a number of times according to a variable to represent the top view drawing, for example. In parametric cells, this is not possible. It is possible to use a parametric solid arra...
5 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

Parametric cells need to place handles

In Parametric Cell Studio, there is the possibility of placing handles to change the dimension of a measurement. The change updates the dimensions of the entire cell.It would be interesting to be able to use this option in Parametric Cell and not ...
5 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 2 Future consideration

Resolve slab encounter with stair

Staircase encounters with the slab are not considered in OBD. It would be interesting to be able to adjust them directly in the stair settings so that they are similar to reality when they are built.See image
5 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

Parametric Cell does not display drawing symbols correctly

When placing a parametric cell, the preview of the top view symbols is displayed correctly if they are activated in the Building settings. If they are not activated in the Building settings but Named Presentation is activated, the top view and the...
5 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

Map Itemtype Properties to DG Definitions

Itemtype can read lot of properties of an element using expressions however DG System can only read certain properties. It would be great to have a link between Itemtype or EC Schema properties and DG Prporties so user can map some of the properti...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration