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Apply Part and Family to elements in group "orphan cell"

When you group elements it creates an orphan cell so when you apply Part and Family it only applies to the Cell Header not all the elements in the Group "orphan cell". Need to have a "Change Whole Elements" like there is in the Change tool. And on...
10 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 1 Future consideration

Improve DWG Export

Currently when exporting drawing models to DWG it appears as if the OBD-specific geometry is completely ignored. What I mean is that the entire represantation based on F/P assignment is not respected in the DWG file. I would expect the DWG file to...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 3 Needs review

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 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 11 Future consideration

Place PS Member Mirrored

Very handy option we had with OBD members was to place a member mirrored. Great for modelling channel sections.
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 2 Planned

Improvement in Family/Parts Editor and Catalog Editor

Hi, It will be appreciate to have a better respect of the general Windows convention in these two dialog boxes. 1) They are similar but they are working differently 2) When an entity is editable in the tree or in the listview (right side), F...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration

2D section export from Imodels

When cutting a section in an Imodel within the Design review environment it would be good if a user could export that 2D section as a DGN file?
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Digital Twins 3 Needs review

Add Carbon Emission Index/rate parameters

As there is an increase awareness on carbon emission and a need to calculate the embedded carbon rate per volume of material assigned in the model, it should be time for this parameter to be included and rate set based on standard EC rate. Current...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Match Element in Modify Properties panel - Always Active

The Match Element properties tool is currently available only while placing a new element. This restricts the type of elements it can match and forces the user to query the element to find out its kind, hop around to different tools. This is a lot...
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Planned

Rounded Corners for Handrails

OBD tool should have parameter to round the corners (and ends) of the handrails? This is very common and required by the UK Bldg Regs. Also a big no-no for public stairs in stations for safety reasons. Dropping the handrail and trying to use the M...
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

Clean-up Walls in 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 ...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural / Structural 0 Future consideration