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Allow unfiers between parts

There is a need for unifiers work between parts
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Needs review

update the configuration explorer

need to compaire different configurations
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Needs review

Create part - add DGN,CEL to the list of available files

When you create a 3d part, this would typically be a DGN or a cell. Although it is possible to edit the xsd files to include DGN and cel as a format, this is not set by default. Now that we have parametric modelling the DGN format needs to be visi...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Needs review

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over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 2 Needs review

System ID Increment - Remove Leading zeros

When using the "System ID" tool to number pipes (I assume also for ducts), the ID can automatically be incremented. The starting value is "001", which made me believe the tool would be smart enough to remove the leading zeros as soon as the second...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 0 Needs review

Element level override for ifcBuilding and ifcBuildingStorey

Sometimes it would be nice to have the ability to override a specific element's ifcBuilding and ifcBuildingStorey. Now they can (only) be defined on model level in the IFC export - spatial mapping. It could mean creating a little less models/neste...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Needs review

Set default wall connect type

Currently when drawing new walls, the default connection is mitred (called 'bi-sector' in the "Connect Forms" tool). This is very unconventional, so I'd rather set the default to 'Parallel'. Now I have to re-do all connections after drawing the wall.
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Needs review

Improve "Apply pipe slope"

My main work with the MEP modules in OBD is to create some sewer models. They are always with sloped pipes. Currently it is very difficult to add or change the pipe slopes after placement. For example, I would like to first model everything withou...
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 0 Needs review

Move Members to Defined RL

Something that would be very handy is a tool that would move elements to a preset rl. This would be a much easier option over using the move command in large models. Would also be great is there was an option to flatten raked members.
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 0 Needs review

Multi-selection and drag-drop option for Spaces in Program Manager

When we import the data from Excel to Program Manager all spaces are added as long list and to realize where they should be placed we have to group them. Right now we can just Cut and Paste one by one each Space to move them from the common list t...
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Needs review