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Drawings: Resymbolizing files(IFC,3DM, DWG, ITwin, etc) from different applications when referenced in OpenBuildings

An OpenBuildings Civil Structural user may need to reference an iTwin model of a bridge design. The OpenBuildings user may need to represent the concrete of the bridge in section with a concrete hatch including unification of separate concrete obj...
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration

Clean-up Walls(and other forms) Through References

In a federated model, if I have 2 walls in separate files, it can be very difficult to clean up walls that are interacting between different models. We need to allow the Connect Wall tool (specifically connect as L Parallel and Connect Forms as L ...
almost 5 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural / Structural 0 Future consideration

Modify Properties tool in Modify Instance Data Panel

Seems like Properties in Mstn are not talking to the DGS-led properties in OBD. It would be good to provide better synching between yje Modify Properties tool and the Modify Instance Data Panel. Eventually a unified panel? Enhancement Request # 11...
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Future consideration

Add Instance Data - Mapping tool

Could the Add Instance Data tool be enhanced to provide some means of linking the object's Properties to the DGS information, please? Link to previous discussion back 2015. There seems to quite a lot of progress with Expressions which can extract ...
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Future consideration

Duplicate parts - Catalog Editor

Can we add an option within the Catalog Editor to expose the file name that the duplicate parts reside in. Within the Catalog editor, there are tow columns (left and right). in the left hand side you see just one duplicate part. within the section...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 1 Future consideration

Allow special characters in attribute names

We would like to specify the units with a suffix in the attributes, e.g. "Schichtstaerke_[mm]". Unfortunately, square brackets and other special characters are not allowed. We ask you to program this so that special characters are also allowed. Wi...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Schedule wall layers/components - display the actual wall family/part

In OBD > 10 you can schedule a single wall and wall assembly. However, what you cannot do is schedule the wall assembly layers aka sub walls and maintain their real family/part names. OBD will schedule them as 'Default' walls rather than the ac...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 2 Future consideration

Make Displayset different sets for different views

In dense models it is easier to identify one/a few elements and see their relations to other elements. Like viewset.mdl did in ABD
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 11 Future consideration

grid balloon text

When you create a GRID system and define the Grid balloons, if the grid is not orthogonal to the view ie a building is not horizontal, when the grid is placed, the balloon text is placed at an odd angle. These text are unable to be rotated to the ...
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

Parametric cell and repeated drawing symbols

In Parametric Cell Studio, lines, rectangles, etc. could be repeated a number of times according to a variable to represent the top view drawing, for example. In parametric cells, this is not possible. It is possible to use a parametric solid arra...
8 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration