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Material alignment

If you have a building that contain a series of walls, if the building is rotated away from the horizontal and apply materials via the family and parts. when the building is cut the materials are never aligned with building ie a wall (see image) I...
4 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Needs review

Data of RFA files

Data of RFA files, OBD doesn't read correctly to create schedules automaticly
4 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 0 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"
over 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

room ref numbers on the layout cannot be relocated

Sometimes we do not have room references from architects and we need to create them ourselves. We need to be able to show clearly the location of particular room on the layout - it can be done in wireframe top view. Unfortunately sometimes room nu...
5 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 0 Needs review

Sort Saved Views (Orientation) in Attach Reference

When you attach a reference and open the Orientation, you can choose a Saved View within the file. The list shows the SVs in order of creation. It would be nice to be able to sort them (by View or Description).
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Use of Configuration explorer for OBD2023

For me It is easy to use Configuration Explorer to split the Delivered datasets WorkSpace an WorkSet. It will be very helpfull when support update the Configuration Explorer for OBD2023 because it is very clear. And when in Bentley learn the BIM30...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 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...
about 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 2 Future consideration

IFC 4.3 Schema

IFC Export: IFC 4.3 Schema
10 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Planned

Add height of opening to width dimensions

When dimensioning the width of a door or window, show the height of the opening below the dimension line (in accordance with DIN standard)
over 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Future consideration

Project Manager tool

A single dialog to manage project settings, files, configuration variables, workset, dataset, and other options for OBD projects
over 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration