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Mstn Parametric Solids Variables in DGS

When the DGS be able to interact with the variables that come with and drive Functional Cells? Link to discussion five years ago
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration

Penetrations: User-defined Penetration Object

The Penetration Object geometry should be replaced by a Parametric Cell, which the user can modify to suit project needs, additional elements etc. Penetrations require a lot of additional construction elements like sleeves, boarding, supports / li...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Improve DWG Export

Currently when exporting drawing models to DWG it appears as if the OBD-specific geometry is completely ignored. What I mean is that the entire represantation based on F/P assignment is not respected in the DWG file. I would expect the DWG file to...
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 3 Already exists

Finish consolidating tools

Throughout OBD, we have lots of tools that do similar things. For example, we have "Connect Elements", but also "Connect Beams/Pipes" and "Connect Roofs". This semi-duplication makes it harder to find commands and slower to find them because they ...
almost 5 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer 5 Future consideration

Add curve to Curtain wall

The current Curtain Wall tool in OBD10 doesn't allow you to create a Curtain wall that contains a curve or a complex shape. With the new style buildings that are being designed, there are very few buildings that do not have some sort of curved roo...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

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 ...
over 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer 1 Future consideration

2D section export from Imodels

When cutting a section in an Imodel within the Design review environment it would be good if a user could export that 2D section as a DGN file?
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Digital Twins 3 Needs review

Place Slab - From Shape => Shape from reference file

Allow the option "From Shape" in Create Slab to accept input shape located in a referenced file. Now as a workaround I first have to copy these shapes from the refernce into active design file, then I can use the Create Slab From Shape
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

Vertical Louvres

I have been working with Steve Cocchi to create a vertical Louvre. This new louvre will adjust the number of blades and allow you to to rotate them. It would be great to include these bespoke families & parts to the datasets for all to be able...
7 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Will not implement

Merge Dataset family & parts

Within the different datasets, there are family and parts that do not exist in other datasets ie within the US dataset there are handrails with a glass panels, but in the UK dataset this is missing. There are many many other items that I feel shou...
7 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Planned