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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 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 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

Parametric cells need to place handles

In Parametric Cell Studio, there is the possibility of placing handles to change the dimension of a measurement. The change updates the dimensions of the entire cell.It would be interesting to be able to use this option in Parametric Cell and not ...
8 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 2 Future consideration

Resolve slab encounter with stair

Staircase encounters with the slab are not considered in OBD. It would be interesting to be able to adjust them directly in the stair settings so that they are similar to reality when they are built.See image
8 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

Parametric Cell does not display drawing symbols correctly

When placing a parametric cell, the preview of the top view symbols is displayed correctly if they are activated in the Building settings. If they are not activated in the Building settings but Named Presentation is activated, the top view and the...
8 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

Improve parametric cells for doors and windows

The behavior of parametric cells must be improved in order to replace PCS and BXC to create doors and windows.When modifying a parametric door, strange behavior is observed. If the width is enlarged with the handle, the door is not modified in the...
8 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 2 Future consideration

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 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Automated reductions in reported floor area

Rule system to reduce area/volume of rooms based on sloped elements above, such as roofs and stairs, niches and floor-to-ceiling windows, and columns, in space reports
over 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Future consideration

Option to Add Company Logo to Results

On Hevacomp, you were able to add your company logo to results such as Heat Loss and Heat Gain. It would be good if the same can be done for open buildings energy simulator results.
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 1 Future consideration

Spot Elevations that work across nested Refs

Very old request! Pretty much every other BIM app handles this without any fuss. Not sure why Bentley seems to struggle with this. We need to be able to extract and report height elevation info based on a user defined coordinate system (usually th...
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration