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Allow special characters in attribute names

We would like to specify the units with a suffix in the attributes, e.g. "Schichtstaerke_[mm]". Unfortunately, square brackets and other special characters are not allowed. We ask you to program this so that special characters are also allowed. Wi...
about 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Schedule wall layers/components - display the actual wall family/part

In OBD > 10 you can schedule a single wall and wall assembly. However, what you cannot do is schedule the wall assembly layers aka sub walls and maintain their real family/part names. OBD will schedule them as 'Default' walls rather than the ac...
about 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 2 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
almost 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Future consideration

Generative Components: Support MS Python

It would be great to be able to support interaction with MS Python scripts. GC locks any Mstn geometry that it manipulates. This severely limits its use compared with other visual programming aids like Dynamo, PyRevit. MS Python seems a lot less c...
9 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Migrate data from one dataset to another

I would like to have some sort of (visual) tool that can show what data is stored in dataset A and convert bits of it to Dataset B. I do not want the entire dataset just bits of it i.e we could spend hours creating a series of doors, gates etc., w...
9 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 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...
about 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Floor Manager and Grid tools should recognise Coordinate Systems and enable defined building locations

On large projects, with multiple (& repeated) buildings it is common to model the building around the file origin, and then reference/place into actual location. The current system does not recognise if the refernce is moved, so the floor mana...
about 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration

Floor manager => Rotate floor/building by points

Similar as in the Grid manager we need the option for the floor manager to "Rotate by points" so that a building can be positioned and rotated properly.
about 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 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...
about 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Rounded Corners for Handrails

OBD tool should have parameter to round the corners (and ends) of the handrails? This is very common and required by the UK Bldg Regs. Also a big no-no for public stairs in stations for safety reasons. Dropping the handrail and trying to use the M...
about 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration