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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 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 2 Future consideration

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
over 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration

Change multiple catalog items

When I want to change multiple catalog items, itable, hidden, and parametric name data, I can only do it one by one. Changing this data for all items or groups of items is not possible. It would be a good idea to be able to select all, a gro...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 4 Already exists

One Click Dimension (with opening width)

If we can pick a wall and get an instant Dimension, maybe with Opening width as additional Information, it would accelerate the Plan Layout. Attached a GIF showing the idea in a sample macro created some years ago. Optional these dimensions could ...
almost 6 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 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 ...
almost 6 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural / Structural 0 Future consideration

Individuell erzeugte Bauteile mit dem Zeichnungsfilter bearbeiten

Individuell erzeugte Bauteile mit dem Zeichnungsfilter bearbeiten. Individuell erzeugte Bauteile werden für den Unternehmensstandard benötigt. Die nachträgliche Anpassung im Zeichnungsfilter ist erforderlich und erleichtert die tägliche Arbeit er...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Speedikon 0 Future consideration

Creating new Catalog

I have copied an excisting mdb and xml file and modify all. But OBD can't design with it. Support send me here to upload this idea. Because I have design it with delivered catalog. But I have to change this, because this is not the right catalog. ...
8 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 1 Future consideration

Update compound slab so align hatch to form works

I want to be able to use "Align hatch to form" even with a Compound slab, which is not possible at the moment. If you have a pattern that is required to align with the slab, it's not possible to get it through the part and family system. Like the ...
8 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

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...
over 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 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 ...
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration