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Being able to input a ceiling plenum after an exposed ceiling design change

Currently there is no way to change from an exposed ceiling design to now a ceiling plenum without starting again once created. Designs change so this should be an easy change also
5 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Needs review

Profile tool - Perforator Option

OBD's Profile tool is quite powerful. A lot of building elements are linear and can be modeled this way. Mstn's new Perforator tool is also powerful as it complements solid modeling by providing the 'negative' of solids ie voids. Together, both fu...
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration

Filled Visible Edges in "Cached" view

The fact that element fill in display style "Filled Visible Edges" only works when Visible Edge setting is set to "Dynamic" is really annoying! For example making Elevation drawings wanting to use a simple fill on steel SW panels or window/door fr...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 3 Future consideration

OBD Selects references

I want to lock references to prevent them from being selected.
5 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 2 Already exists

Option to ungroup components placed as array parametric solid

Filing this idea on behalf of B+S AG | Stefan Schöni. While using the command "Array parametric solid feature", the components are 'grouped' - this is still the case in the IFC file. This means that no evaluations can be made because, for example,...
11 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Rhino inside

HI Bentley I was just looking at Revit/Rhino/Grasshopper and they are all linked via a tool called Rhino Inside. https://www.rhino3d.com/inside/revit/1.0/ When revit, rhino and grasshopper are linked, the tool sets are added to each of the 3 appli...
6 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Needs review

Allow the defintion of Inclined Floor Planes

Many users (CrossRail, TFL) working on stations would like to be able to define a "floor" that is inclined for use cases such as tunnels and ramps between platforms etc.
over 5 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 3 Planned

Map Itemtype Properties to DG Definitions

Itemtype can read lot of properties of an element using expressions however DG System can only read certain properties. It would be great to have a link between Itemtype or EC Schema properties and DG Prporties so user can map some of the properti...
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Dataset.cfg variable MS_DGNLIBLIST_LINESTYLES need to be set to '<'

OBD 2023 using the ISO19650 dataset, the Dataset.cfg has the variable MS_DGNLIBLIST_LINESTYLES = $(TFDIR)Dgnlib\Linestyles,dgnlib With it set the equals, it will not read any similar MS_DGNLIBLIST_LINESTYLES variables that has been set to either a...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Planned

Make OBD Content Discoverable: Create a search tool for Catalogs and Catalog Items

The Ribbon Search tool is a life-saver for new users (and old ones who forget where tools are). It makes it very easy to find a tool in the interface, however, if you do not know what tool is hiding the content you want to place, then you are out ...
about 5 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer 1 Future consideration