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Trim/Extend Multiple Walls

The Connect Walls command only works on 1 wall at a time. If the users need to extend multiple walls to touch another wall, the user must click the same wall multiple times. We should strive to match the workflow available in the Trim to Element C...
about 5 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 2 Future consideration

Creation of structural foundations in OBD

Currently it is not possible to create dedicated "Footing" / foundation elements in OBD. The workaround is to use Beams (for strip foundation) or Columns (for pad foundation). However it's not an ideal situation. Proconcrete of course does offer t...
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 2 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...
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration

Penetrations: Overrides

Support for overrides would be a big productivity booster. Overlaps with Ideas / worflows for: 1. Penetration Object level rules / configs. Progressive refinement of low LOD rules into higher LOD rules via a 'parent - children' sub-classing workfl...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 1 Future consideration

Penetrations: Config/Rule per Penetration Object

The new Penetrations tool introduced in U10 is pretty promising. But, the current assumption that there a large 'classes' of Penetrations is flawed. There also needs to be a way to support Penetration rules/ config at Penetration level. Each Penet...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural 1 Future consideration

Fill Option Control

Provide 3 options to all cut elements in a view: No fill, solid fill (black or gray), or original fill, instead of the current system which only shows the cut fills defined in the Part/Family system
over 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural 0 Future consideration

Calculated parameters for OBD elements

In today's BIM world the "I" of information becomes more and more important. This information is driven mostly by the properties attached to an element, more than by it's geometry. OBD already has a lot of built-in properties, also when it comes t...
almost 3 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General 2 Future consideration