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Duplicate parts - Catalog Editor

Can we add an option within the Catalog Editor to expose the file name that the duplicate parts reside in. Within the Catalog editor, there are tow columns (left and right). in the left hand side you see just one duplicate part. within the section...
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems Future consideration

Schedule wall layers/components - display the actual wall family/part

In OBD > 10 you can schedule a single wall and wall assembly. However, what you cannot do is schedule the wall assembly layers aka sub walls and maintain their real family/part names. OBD will schedule them as 'Default' walls rather than the ac...
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural Future consideration

Floor manager => Rotate floor/building by points

Similar as in the Grid manager we need the option for the floor manager to "Rotate by points" so that a building can be positioned and rotated properly.
about 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Future consideration

ProStructures Object View Center in OBD

It would be good to integrate OVC into OBD. Very few will be able to justify paying for the PS license just to get OVC inspite of its benefits. Link to previous discussion. OVC would also be very useful enabling tool for updating OBD's Place Objec...
about 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Future consideration

Spot Elevations that work across nested Refs

Very old request! Pretty much every other BIM app handles this without any fuss. Not sure why Bentley seems to struggle with this. We need to be able to extract and report height elevation info based on a user defined coordinate system (usually th...
about 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Future consideration

XML-Excel Conversion Utility 2.0

OBD has Edit-in-Excel for DGS properties. Bravo. What would be good is if the old XML-Excel Conversion Utility could be used to provide an Excel-based route to editing all that XML-based info that OBD needs... .xsd, F&P, etc, etc etc Has its u...
about 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Future consideration

Performance information in ProjectEditor

Add thermal transmittance (Wärmedämmwert) and sound reduction (Schalldämm-Maß) as a column that can be edited to the following elements listed in Project Editor: Walls: single, compound, tilted, custom Openings: doors, windows, facade element...
about 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Speedikon 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. ...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems 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 ...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Future consideration

New pipe system for OBD

There are for OBD new pipe. There is no command to design these pipes. The pipes are in a role. See link. If I must design it with flexible command. This is very slow and not workable. https://www.warmteservice.nl/Installatiemateriaal/Leidingsyste...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Systems Future consideration