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Room by Room Schedule Summary

I want a facility to quickly print a schedule that shows every room within the whole building and summarizes the area of each room and the occupancy of that room. I do not want a total for the whole building. It needs to be on a room-by-room basis...
7 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 2 Needs review

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...
8 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 0 Needs review

Use of the Exchange Reference Command

When we have file A active and B and C referenced, selecting B and using Exchange is simply equivalent to opening file B. The ideal function would be to open file B with A and C referenced.
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Needs review

Chillers should be in the HVAC Category, NOT Plumbing

There aren't any .... it should be obvious/self-explanatory
about 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 1 Needs review

More IFC Manipulation tools

I really love the "ifcTransformReferenced" key-in. It's the easiest way I know of to relocate an IFC file, keeping all other information intact. It would be so nice to get some similar features for: Splitting IFC file: For example we often receive...
about 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Needs review

Create datagroup for elbows wih male-male/male-female connections

There are a lot of elbows and tees with wire connections. And when modifying an existing datagroup, OBD has a limitation in creating these fittings. And Revit can do all fittings, and also with the right image and dimensions. When will OBD do this...
8 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 1 Needs review

Material alignment

If you have a building that contain a series of walls, if the building is rotated away from the horizontal and apply materials via the family and parts. when the building is cut the materials are never aligned with building ie a wall (see image) I...
8 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Needs review

Data of RFA files

Data of RFA files, OBD doesn't read correctly to create schedules automaticly
8 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 1 Needs review

Being able to input a ceiling plenum after an exposed ceiling design change

Currently there is no way to change from an exposed ceiling design to now a ceiling plenum without starting again once created. Designs change so this should be an easy change also
9 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Needs review

IFC Spatial Containment - Multi select and assign floor to files.

When exporting IFC and when working with projects that contain multiple buildings, there is no single way to assign the reference files to a single building. Every reference within the file path has to be selected seperately to assign the building...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Needs review