OpenBuildings™ Station Designer Help

Architectural Ribbon

The Architectural ribbon contains common tools as well as tools specific to the Architectural discipline including space planning, wall, profile, door and window placement, roofs and ceilings, and stairs and railings.



You can access the following Architectural discipline design tools here:

  • Space Planning - Manage space planning activities.
  • Architectural Walls - Place and manipulate simple and compound walls, and profiles.
  • Curtain Walls - Place and manipulate curtain walls.
  • Doors and Windows - Place and modify windows, curtain walls, doors, door frames and change door swings and hands.
  • Ceilings - Place parametric floor and ceiling forms; reflected ceiling grids, linear and patterned ceilings; single, multiple or matrix arrays of ceiling fixtures
  • Building Roofs - Place roofs and roof specialties, and modify roof slopes, trim roofs.
  • Fixtures, Furnishings, and Equipment - Place user defined and specialty objects.
  • Cabinets and Casework - Place cabinets and rows of casework, modify the size of cabinets and casework.
  • Stairs and Railings - Place stairs, handrails, and extract railing placement lines from existing railings or stairs.