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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

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...
over 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Planned

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...
7 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 4 Future consideration

Upgrade design file cleanup tool to work with building elements

in basic MS the design file cleanup tool is very useful at removing duplicate elements, this should be upgraded to work with Building elements such as walls, doors, windows(and all objects) and structural elements also.
about 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

IFC 4.3 Schema

IFC Export: IFC 4.3 Schema
12 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Planned

IFC entity mapping for subcomponents of Curtain Wall

The subcomponents Panels and Mullions of Curtain Wall now mapped to IfcBuildingElementProxy in IfcEntity when exported to IFC4 in OpenBuildings. Tried to modify the mapping options in the IFC Export dialog or edit the IFC_PartMapping_ifc4.set to a...
8 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Add height of opening to width dimensions

When dimensioning the width of a door or window, show the height of the opening below the dimension line (in accordance with DIN standard)
almost 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Future consideration

Allow non-parametric cells to be placed as shared cells through the DG placement dialogs.

Users would like an option to place cells through the DataGroup enriched placement dialogs (as opposed to Compound Cell Manager or Cells dialog) as Shared Cells. Users have several detailed cells that are used many times in the same model. Without...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration

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. ...
4 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 1 Future consideration