OpenBuildings™ Designer Help

Icon Locks

Contains tools to toggle OpenBuildings Designer Locks on and off. Locks control the relationships and groupings of Building components such as relationships between walls and doors and windows as well as plane locks that allow you to place Building components on a predefined elevation (floor) regardless of where the pointer is located in 3D space.

Accessed from:
  • Ribbon: Building Design > [Discipline] > Common Tools > Toolbars > Icon Locks
  • Ribbon: Building Design > Drawing production > Common Tools > Toolbars > Icon Locks
  • Ribbon: Building Design > Data/Reporting > Common Tools > Toolbars > Icon Locks
  • Ribbon: Building Design > Modify > Common Tools > Toolbars > Icon Locks
  • Ribbon: Building Design > Analysis > Common Tools > Toolbars > Icon Locks


Setting Description
Graphic Group Lock Used to toggle the Graphic Group Lock feature on and off.
ILOCK GRAPHICGRP < ON | OFF >
ACS Plane Lock Used to toggle the ACS Plane Lock feature on and off.
ILOCK ACSPLANE < ON | OFF >
ACS Plane Snap Lock Used to toggle the ACS Plane Snap lock feature on and off.
ILOCK ACSPLANESNAP < ON | OFF >
Imply Relationship Lock Used to toggle the Imply Relationship feature on and off. Implied relationships between forms (form connections for example) are maintained after the form is manipulated when on.
ILOCK IMPLYRELATIONSHIP < ON | OFF >
When toggled ON, the opened lock tool icons change the color (green).