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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

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 ...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 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

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...
about 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 5 Needs review

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

Level Of Graphical Detail - LOgD

When working thought the various phases of a project, we have to develop a series of BIM objects based on the Level of Graphic Detail (LOgD) per design stage As a guide .. Concept design (CD) (stage 2 would typically be LOgD 200 Scheme Design (SD)...
7 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Future consideration

Prostructures Ribbon

So, in OBD, you can activate a Prostructures license You are then able to place all the Prostructures items, but you need to know the key-in to get to all the Prostructures placements, It would be good if there were a way to get the Prostructures ...
10 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 2 Future consideration

Text alignment isn't working when we use the leader feature in OBD software.

For Example, for notes, adjusting the left and right alignment is not straightforward. While these settings can be changed globally, they cannot be modified for individual notes. However, this adjustment is possible for text elements. Therefore, w...
7 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Spot level, tag, and callout are not updating automatically; we have to update them manually each time.

Spot level, tag, and callout are not updating automatically; we have to update them manually each time.
7 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Needs review

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