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Assembly Builder - Replace Assembly Workflow / Tool

It is recognised that components and assemblies need to be replaced intelligently. This is supported at platform level by the Replace Cell tool. Assemblies provide a way to for users to insert a lot of stuff. They will eventually need to manage th...
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Support for phased construction/renovation

Many construction projects include work on existing buildings or working in phases, so each phase has items that are existing to remain, to be removed, to be patched, and to be added. While we have a data property for this, it would be more useful...
almost 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer 0 Future consideration

Quick Thermal Analysis tools

It would be great to some quick checking tools like THERM, BL WINDOW, UcanPSI This would allow front line designers quickly evaluate their designs without having to throw things over the wall to another app or specialist consultant and waiting for...
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 1 Future consideration

Enable Program Area of a space to constrain its size

Enable Program Area of a space to constrain its size (rubber-banding capability) so user can adjust a side and have the shape respond. 2D constraints in MicroStation can do this, see video (the video is real-time; scrub through to get the picture ...
almost 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 3 Future consideration

Add ability to run the validate utilities without fully launching application

There is a useful troubleshooting utility that can be launched from within the application (DG validation). can we provide a simple UI that will allow this utility to run without having to launch the application the Ui would allow the user to sele...
over 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer 0 Future consideration

GC: create the ability to expand a package

in update 7 we have introduced a new method of creating a node package, a way of simplifying many nodes down to one in some cases. This is very useful for controlling often used modelling techniques and reducing the size and complexity of the grap...
almost 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer 0 Future consideration

Open Cities Planner (OCP): Bi directional Support

Take Schematic and or existing models data from OCP, and bring it into a design session inside OBD Create a workflow to display OBD data and geometry inside OCP
about 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural / Buildings Services 1 Future consideration