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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...
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Needs review

3d Spaces -Spatial Containment - Auto Join tool

Solids or volumes can be defined as Spaces. Spaces are a fundamental organising tool as it defines rooms that provides a containment structuring tool. See also IFC. Projects often start with a spatial programme listing the rooms and areas needed. ...
about 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Needs review

Urban Heat Island Effect Modeling

Analysing the effects of overheating is becoming an integral part of the design of buildings, driven by ongoing changes to the building regulations. These interactive tools for analytical modeling, exemplified by OBD's integration with Energy Simu...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 0 Needs review

Move Placement Point to CAT and not Part

When setting up the OBD build, ideally, you would have the Part (beam, column, bracing etc.) and then use the Cat to set up Beam options by type, including the Placement Point (PP). eg. Part-Beam\Cat-Primary Beam with PP set to top-centre, Part-Be...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 0 Needs review

Room Acoustics Modeling

Would it be possible to calculate the room acoustic properties in OBES? Since OBES is already tracking the thermal properties of the enclosing wall, ceiling and floor elements, it should be relatively straightforward to also include the acoustic p...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 1 Needs review

XML-Excel Conversion Utility 2.0

OBD has Edit-in-Exel for DGS properties. Bravo. What would be good is if the old XML-Excel Conversion Utility could used to provide an Excel-based route to editing all that xml based info that OBD needs... .xsd, F&P etc etc etc Has its uses, b...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Needs review

Assembly Builder - Minimum No. of Elements

AB currently needs to have to include at least two OBD elements to create an Assembly. Or any OBD elements at all (Mstn elements only).This minimum is not aligned with Mstn behaviour which allows a single element to be defined as a Cell. Why two? ...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Needs review

Assembly Builder - Placement Points (Persistent)

AB needs to support PPs. This will avert the need to manually pick change the insertion point which will be needed quite often. The new PPs introduced by platfrom are also persistent which means that when the assembly needs to be replaced, this ca...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Needs review

Penetrations: Config / Rules engine

Currently, the configs can create rules for cutting elements based on 'size, type or even few properties'. It would be good to expand this to: Properties: Item Types / DGS / Family and Parts. Cut as well as Cutting element- sort of similar to the ...
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Needs review