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Select Similar

A Select Similar options needs to be added to the Right Click Popup option menu or the Tools Settings dialog. AutoCAD has had this feature for a long time and it would be very useful to be able to select a particular Element, such as a wall or a w...
over 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 3 Future consideration

RFA in a Cell but not in the schedule

I must a lot of fire dampfer in a building and it is a RFA file of Solid Air. It is all the same room, So I create a cell to copy this in other rooms. But when I want to create a schedule, This is not listed in the schedule. It can also be done by...
5 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 2 Needs review

Automated Element Numbering

Generate element ID numbers based on their floor number and space location. For examples, manually label a space "03" on the first floor, becomes "103". A door that is manually labeled "A", opening into room 104 becomes "104A"
about 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

Project Manager tool

A single dialog to manage project settings, files, configuration variables, workset, dataset, and other options for OBD projects
about 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Titlebox for printouts

I am former Hevacomp user. There I had option to add a title box to layout printout, so client was presented with project number, building name, scale etc. It looked professional and helped to avoid mistakes. Not sure why it is not available on En...
10 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 1 Future consideration

IFC 4.3 Schema

IFC Export: IFC 4.3 Schema
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Planned

Concatenate 2 dg properties

I would like to concatinate 2 dg properties into 1 property. Ex. DoorID = SpaceNumber+DoorNumber.
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 3 Will not implement

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

Creation of structural foundations in OBD

Currently it is not possible to create dedicated "Footing" / foundation elements in OBD. The workaround is to use Beams (for strip foundation) or Columns (for pad foundation). However it's not an ideal situation. Proconcrete of course does offer t...
over 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 2 Future consideration

ProjectWise configuration settings - affecting the File opening in OBD

Navigating between folders, particularly from the drawing folder to the sheet folder in directories, is taking a significant amount of time. which is a perfomance issue in integrating the Porjectwise and OBD...
6 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Will not implement