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about 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...
about 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...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Needs review

Allow unfiers between parts

There is a need for unifiers work between parts
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 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.
over 1 year 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...
over 1 year 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.
over 1 year 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...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Needs review

Details for QuidkList of Program Manager

Could we have the column Details in QuickList when we place Spaces? When we import list of the spaces in Program Manager there might be a lot the same spaces for different floors, but when we try to place them with QuickList without grouping we ca...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Needs review

Penetrations: Clash Detection by selected element(s)

Apparently, the PM can do selective updates by allowing the user to select the cutting (or cut ?) element. The PM records the associated elements ElementIDs, presumably. Any callbacks triggered by manipulation by Mstn/OBD tools are recorded by the...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Needs review