OpenBuildings™ Designer Help

Grid Systems Features

  • Create and manage grid systems for specific floors or ranges of floors in multiple buildings
  • Grid Systems integrated with Floor Manager and Floor Selector
  • Create orthographic and radial grid systems
  • Create complex grid systems by drawing your own grid lines using Sketch Grids
  • Orientation tools for moving and rotating grid systems
  • Snappable grid line intersections
  • Insert or remove grid lines at any time
  • Grid systems are dynamically displayed in 3D model
  • The ability to override global offsets for individual grid lines
  • Control grid line extents s and grid labels
  • Preview grids by selecting buildings and floors
  • Grid Systems integrated with the 3D model in transient model
  • Optionally create and update grid system models at each floor elevation with a single click
  • Modify grid line annotations including offsets, gaps, and label overrides in the 2D model
  • Import\Export grid systems via XML
  • Grid styles and grid system symbology managed with Element Templates
  • Supported by Building Dynamic Views
  • Supports grid systems created in RAM Structural System including round tripping of changes via Bentley Structural Synchronizer (ISM)
  • Regenerates legacy grid systems created with the old Column Grid tool