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Add ability to cut a curtain wall with a shape

Hi Support. I have been trying to offset the top front face of a mullion of the top row of a CW and set it back by 20mm. Sadly this is not possible, the profile tool will not allow it. I then thought maybe I can use the cut tool and achieve the sa...
7 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 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.
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration

Titlebox for printouts

I am former Hevacomp user. There I had option to add a title box to layout printout, so client was presented with project number, building name, scale etc. It looked professional and helped to avoid mistakes. Not sure why it is not available on En...
5 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 1 Future consideration

Spaces are not in alphabetical order

Spaces appear in the project tree in order of tracing and not in alphabetical order. The trouble is it cannot be changed and it is being replicated in all the results and reports. Numbers are often a part of room names, so I often end up with room...
6 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 4 Future consideration

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.
over 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 0 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...
over 5 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 2 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
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

Grid Systems and Floor manager

In Grid systems menu there is a possibity to import XML files. But I receive IFC or RVT files. And mostley there is a grid IFCGrid. Is it possible to import this IFCGrid into OpenBuilding and also the levels of the floor in the floor manager. Beca...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 4 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...
about 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Planned

Creating new Catalog

I have copied an excisting mdb and xml file and modify all. But OBD can't design with it. Support send me here to upload this idea. Because I have design it with delivered catalog. But I have to change this, because this is not the right catalog. ...
3 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 1 Future consideration