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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...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 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...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems Needs review

Resymbolising centerlines with Display Rules

It would be very useful if we could control the appearance of centerlines using the Display Rules
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 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...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 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...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural Needs review

Data of RFA files

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

Rhino inside

HI Bentley I was just looking at Revit/Rhino/Grasshopper and they are all linked via a tool called Rhino Inside. https://www.rhino3d.com/inside/revit/1.0/ When revit, rhino and grasshopper are linked, the tool sets are added to each of the 3 appli...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural Needs review

tool to create and update drawing schedule

It will save some time, reduce risk of mistakes and it will take away boring work and make you happier in front of OBD.
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Needs review

ES: Print constructions/fabric build-ups and data under Data Managers>Materials

Energy Simulator. The print option was available in the old Hevacomp. Open Building use similar UI so why remove the print option in the first place? The print would provide a comprehensive details of the u-value, g-value, condensation check, k-va...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services Needs review