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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.
about 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 0 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...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 3 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...
9 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 3 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.
about 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration

Trim/Extend Multiple Walls

The Connect Walls command only works on 1 wall at a time. If the users need to extend multiple walls to touch another wall, the user must click the same wall multiple times. We should strive to match the workflow available in the Trim to Element C...
almost 6 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 2 Future consideration

Allow batch mode without GUI

As per the manual (OpenBuildings Speedikon CONNECT Edition Update 4.2) , the export of IFC files can be batch processed by creating a job.lst file in PROJECT\des\bat\COMPUTERNAME\ife\job.ptk and then running speedm.exe "-mod" "design" "-prj" "proj...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Speedikon 2 Future consideration

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...
10 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

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
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

fundamental element properties within the Schedules

The DataGroup System does not provide a direct, user-configurable method to report on fundamental MicroStation element properties (e.g., raw XYZ coordinates from Range Low/High, or the element's source file name) within the Schedules tool for all ...
4 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Future consideration

Annotation Tools Refresh

Some of OBD's Annotation tools date back to the 90s and need to be updated. A lot of OBD's functionality is also based on new Mstn tech like DV callouts (Place Section Callout, Place Detail Callout, Place Elevation Callout, Place Plan Callout, Pla...
over 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Planned