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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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? ...

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...

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 ...