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Make Displayset different sets for different views

In dense models it is easier to identify one/a few elements and see their relations to other elements. Like viewset.mdl did in ABD
almost 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 11 Future consideration

Chillers should be in the HVAC Category, NOT Plumbing

There aren't any .... it should be obvious/self-explanatory
12 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 1 Needs review

More IFC Manipulation tools

I really love the "ifcTransformReferenced" key-in. It's the easiest way I know of to relocate an IFC file, keeping all other information intact. It would be so nice to get some similar features for: Splitting IFC file: For example we often receive...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Needs review

Place PS Member Mirrored

Very handy option we had with OBD members was to place a member mirrored. Great for modelling channel sections.
about 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 2 Planned

Clean-up Walls(and other forms) Through References

In a federated model, if I have 2 walls in separate files, it can be very difficult to clean up walls that are interacting between different models. We need to allow the Connect Wall tool (specifically connect as L Parallel and Connect Forms as L ...
over 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural / Structural 0 Future consideration

grid balloon text

When you create a GRID system and define the Grid balloons, if the grid is not orthogonal to the view ie a building is not horizontal, when the grid is placed, the balloon text is placed at an odd angle. These text are unable to be rotated to the ...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

Data of Manufacturer

There are a lot of data on the internet from manufacturers. For the Building design system, it would be very nice to use real measurements of the manufacturers. For example, there is a data group of Victaulic implemented in Bentley Open Plant. htt...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 3 Planned

Allow option to remove Context Menu items that are not loaded in from the GUI.dgnlib

The right click context menus have items that are loaded into it from outside a dgn library, provide method to show /hide all context menu items, not just the ones designated thorough a dgn.lib file.
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 0 Needs review

Create space by flood on Referenced geometry

Currently the "Create space - Flood Area" only works on geometry in the active model. I'd be nice to also be able to use it with referenced geometry. See also Idea 138 - Create wall from space in Referenced File. Making this possible would probabl...
about 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 5 Already exists

Improvement in Family/Parts Editor and Catalog Editor

Hi, It will be appreciate to have a better respect of the general Windows convention in these two dialog boxes. 1) They are similar but they are working differently 2) When an entity is editable in the tree or in the listview (right side), F...
about 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration