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Label Line is a neat little tool. However it always mark angels from X axis counter clockwise. Is it possible to have it showing angles 180>a>360 as -11,5 ? image Which would be more intuitive in many cases.

It will be much clearer for the recipients of my drawings. Faster to read and avoid misstakes!!
4 days ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural Needs review

Duplicated IFC properties when modifying default property value

When a default value is used in dg in the workspace and later you locally modify it in the file, Openbuilding shows the locally modified. (Expected) The issue is when you export to ifc, then both the default and the locally modify value are export...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Needs review

Section Numbers Shown on Sizing Analysis

When using the duct and pipe sizing tool section numbers are not shown on the resulting print-outs. In Hevacomp this was possible which was extremely useful when sending our calculations out to Clients such as Network Rail or other TOCs for approv...
24 days ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services Needs review

Energy Sim - Views

When using energy simulator to only run heat gain and loss calculations, it is unclear where the drawn rooms on any floor are looking at the plan view as the ceilings/floors above show up over the top. Can there be a way to see the drawn rooms wit...
2 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Needs review

In the floor manager, it should be possible to create multiple sites (ifcSite) and then select them. German: Im Geschossebenenmanager sollte es möglich sein mehrere Standorte (ifcSite) erstellen und danach auswählen zu können

In the floor manager, it should be possible to create multiple sites (ifcSite) and then select them. Currently, only one project (ifcProject) and one site (ifcSite) can be set per workset. Only multiple buildings (ifcBuilding) can be added. It is ...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Needs review

Removing or reassigning instance data does not work after placing OBD elements. German: Instanzdaten entfernen bzw. neu zuordnen funktioniert nach dem Platzieren von OBD-Elementen nicht

Removing or reassigning instance data no longer works after placing OBD elements (walls, railings, steel beams, profiles, etc.). German: Instanzdaten entfernen bzw. neu zuordnen funktioniert nach dem Platzieren von OBD-Elementen (Wänden, Geländer,...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Needs review

Adding a property Item types to Catalog Items (the same way you add a family/part (new data type))

With the Item Type expression builder you can automate adding data to your object. You can add several dimensions, add categories under various conditions, but also add for instance the description of the model etc etc. It would be very valuable t...
5 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Needs review

Creating native Revit files

Native Revit file Here in Holland the Architect, contructions, mechanical and Electric firms demand to use Revit. In their BIM protocols they demand to collaborate with RVT and IFC files. They demand me to collaborate this way. I don't have any so...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / General Needs review

additional information in Speedikon References

Cross-file transfer that preserves the original component elevation layers from the source file would be a great solution to this issue. A checkbox to toggle the visibility of references for verifying the drawing transfer would be great.
4 months ago in OpenBuildings Speedikon Needs review

Dark Theme

There are aa couple of dialog boxes that re not very nice to look at when you are in Dark Theme. 1. Cell Selector 2. Placing Structural Members 3. Change Type "Instance Data" THIS IS URGENT!!!!! This is the main one as you CANNOT see the Values th...
5 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Structural Needs review