OpenBuildings™ Station Designer Help

Product Re-branding

The product is re-branded from AECOsim Building Designer to OpenBuildings Station Designer.

Since brand is an integral part of the application identity, re-branding AECOsim Building Designer to OpenBuildings Designer results in several changes to the default installation directories, registry entries, executables and many other aspects of the application. References to either 'AECOsim' or 'AECOsim Building Designer' were replaced with 'OpenBuildings' or 'OpenBuildings Designer'. References to 'Building Designer' may remain as 'Building Designer' to include context, but also may just be referred to as 'Designer'. The OpenBuildings re-branding does not impact or change the Building Information Modeling feature set available in the product, and is both the next update release and successor to AECOsim Building Designer Update 4.

Application shortcuts

The location of the application shortcuts are changed to:

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\OpenBuildings CONNECT Edition\OpenBuildings CONNECT Edition\

Systems folder

Directory path is changed to the following:

C:\Program Files\Bentley\OpenBuildings CONNECT Edition\

Application data from Installation folder

Directory path is changed to the following:

C:\ProgramData\Bentley\OpenBuildings Designer\<version>

User Configuration folder

Directory path is changed to the following:

C:\ProgramData\Bentley\OpenBuildings CONNECT Edition\Configuration

Documentation folder

Directory path is changed to the following:

C:\ProgramData\Bentley\Documentation\Designer