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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 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration

Chillers should be in the HVAC Category, NOT Plumbing

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

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...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 3 Already exists

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...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Needs review

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

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 ...
over 5 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 ...
over 5 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural / Structural 0 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?
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Digital Twins 3 Needs review

Scale-sensitive hatch

Adjust crosshatch patterns and symbolic fill spacing to plotting scale in each view.
over 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Future consideration

Place Wall by Space / Shape - Segment option

It would be good to include this option. Its very rare that all sides of the space or room will have the same wall type. The user ends up having to delete or mod most of the walls or even worse not using the tool at all. With this option, the OBD ...
7 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 1 Future consideration