by Andreas Fleischmann | Aug 2, 2019 | DigiPara® Elevatorarchitect for Autodesk® Revit®, DigiPara® Liftdesigner, General News |
Summary: DigiPara Liftdesigner 2020 comes with strong improved BIM features. Major enhancements also happened to the DigiPara LDBIM file format. It has been improved to support Level of Information (LOI) which is needed by the architect. New is also the option to load...
by Andreas Fleischmann | Jul 3, 2018 | DigiPara® Liftdesigner, General News |
Summary: Creating a DigiPara 3D BIM component has never been easier. DigiPara Liftdesigner Version 2018 allows you to load a CAD model and to convert it into DigiPara Profiles. This saves a lot of time for the BIM model definition and also reduces the final BIM model...
by Andreas Fleischmann | Aug 3, 2017 | DigiPara® Liftdesigner, General News
Executive summary: First the good news: The new EN 81-20 reporting is on its way. Second the bad news: It still might take some time. A new Excel reporting functionality will become available together with DigiPara Liftdesigner 2018. These new features are used to...
by Andreas Fleischmann | Feb 23, 2017 | DigiPara® Liftdesigner, General News |
With DigiPara Liftdesigner Version 2017, DigiPara can now load 3D models from many popular CAD programs, as there are: from PTC Creo from Autodesk Inventor from Solidworks There is a great video on Youtube that shows, how a railbracket, designed in PTC Creo is reused...
by Andreas Fleischmann | Jan 3, 2017 | General News |
Conversion from DigiPara GmbH to DigiPara AG We are continuing to grow. Effectively today, we changed the legal form of DigiPara CAD/CAM Hard- und Software Service GmbH to DigiPara AG, a shareholder’s company. The Cologne District Court registered the conversion of...
by Andreas Fleischmann | Aug 11, 2016 | DigiPara® Elevatorarchitect for Autodesk® Revit®, DigiPara® Liftdesigner, General News |
“Are you ready for BIM?” This article talks about the influences and challenges of BIM in the elevator industry. It explains BIM on a very high level and looks at the current adoption of BIM. An overview about today’s elevator BIM tools explains how...
by Andreas Fleischmann | Jul 15, 2016 | DigiPara® Liftdesigner, General News |
Great enhancements are coming up soon. The next version of DigiPara Liftdesigner, Version 2017 will be able to show up files from many popular CAD programs, as there are: from Autodesk Inventor from PTC Creo from Solidworks Today I took the chance to create a sneak...
by Andreas Fleischmann | Jul 14, 2016 | Customer Opinion, DigiPara® Elevatorarchitect for Autodesk® Revit®, DigiPara® Find, General News |
I recently had a conversation with Andrew Milburn from Godwin Austen Johnson (GAJ). GAJ is one of the leading Architectural practices in Dubai. His opinion about our Elevator Plugin for Autodesk Revit is: “These apps enhance collaboration between designers and...
by Andreas Fleischmann | May 11, 2016 | DigiPara® Find, DigiPara® Liftdesigner, General News |
Recently there was a great Elevcon Congress 2016 in Madrid hosted by ThyssenKrupp. I had the chance the held a presentation and would like to say thank you to all the attendees. Since several people asked me for the presentation, I am happy to share this with all of...
by Andreas Fleischmann | Mar 10, 2016 | DigiPara® Liftdesigner, General News |
DigiPara Liftdesigner users now can get JORDAHL® Anchor Channels in our product library. Since 100 years JORDAHL is a pioneer in the field of fastening and reinforcement technology. The company understands the needs of the elevator industry – matching anchor...
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by Andreas Fleischmann | Feb 12, 2016 | DigiPara® Elevatorarchitect for Autodesk® Revit®, DigiPara® Liftdesigner, General News |
In the latest version of DigiPara Liftdesigner (Version >= 2016.0.175) the BIM exports have been strongly improved, in particular for the escalator module. The new version considers transparencies of glass. Also the disturbing lines in truss and balustrade have...
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by Andreas Fleischmann | Jan 15, 2016 | DigiPara® Elevatorarchitect for Autodesk® Revit®, DigiPara® Liftdesigner, General News |
Recently the British CIBSE organisation has released a BIM “Product Data Template” (PDT) for elevators. If you fill your project data into the file, the result will become the “Elevator BIM Product Data Sheet” (PDS). The PDS should be sent to...
by Andreas Fleischmann | May 6, 2015 | General News |
LOD: The Level of Development (LOD) Specification is a reference that enables practitioners in the AEC Industry to specify and articulate with a high level of clarity the content and reliability of Building Information Models (BIMs) at various stages in the design and...
by Andreas Fleischmann | Feb 9, 2015 | DigiPara® Elevatorarchitect for Autodesk® Revit®, DigiPara® Liftdesigner, General News |
Nowadays, the demand for the visualization of elevator models is extremely high – all participants of a project automatically expect 3D elevator models.”Building Information Modeling (BIM)” is a method to optimize the planning, implementation and...
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by Andreas Fleischmann | Oct 31, 2014 | DigiPara® Elevatorarchitect for Autodesk® Revit®, General News |
In the current version of DigiPara Elevatorarchitect, you can easily load a full 3D elevator Building Information Modeling (BIM) into the 3D architecture software Autodesk revit. Already more than 12,000 architects worldwide have the opportunity as users of Digipara...
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by Andreas Fleischmann | Apr 15, 2014 | DigiPara® Liftdesigner, General News |
Recently ThyssenKrupp CENE (Central and Northern Europe) released a website, where architects can customize their elevator model according to their needs.http://drawing-tool.thyssenkrupp-elevator-cene.com/The website worked pretty good. I was able to create a new...
by Andreas Fleischmann | Aug 2, 2013 | DigiPara® Liftdesigner, General News |
We have created two tutorials which explain step by step, how you can define and automate a cabin wall panel and ceiling with DigiPara® Liftdesigner in the 3D mechanical design software Autodesk® Inventor® . Both videos are part of the DigiPara®...
by Andreas Fleischmann | May 28, 2013 | DigiPara® Liftdesigner |
To help you get started with our enhanced DigiPara® Liftdesigner version for Autodesk® Inventor® software, we have created a set of training videos and uploaded them to our DigiPara® YouTube channel. Watch the playlist: For a better understanding, we...
by Andreas Fleischmann | May 16, 2013 | General News |
In this article “A Level of Development Specification for BIM Processes” Jim Bedrick explains the evolution of LODs and in particular the fundamental LOD definitions.
by Andreas Fleischmann | Mar 16, 2013 | General News |
The BSI document “PAS 1192-2:2013 Specification for information management for the capital/delivery phase of construction projects using building information modelling” can be freely downloaded from the bsigroup website. A small regsitration is required,...
by Andreas Fleischmann | Aug 28, 2012 | DigiPara® Liftdesigner, General News |
We are happy to present you an enhanced version of our DigiPara Liftdesigner software, featuring BIM Exchange for Autodesk Revit software. DigiPara® Liftdesigner software can now save 3D elevator models into the LD BIM file format. It then loads the complete 3D...
by Andreas Fleischmann | Aug 6, 2012 | DigiPara® Liftdesigner, General News |
We are happy to inform you that you can now save 2D elevator CAD drawings within DigiPara® Liftdesigner software into SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) file format. SVG is a family of specifications of an XML-based file format for two-dimensional vector graphics,...
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by Andreas Fleischmann | Nov 17, 2011 | General News |
The DigiPara® Liftdesigner Automation software is now able to save 3-D elevator and escalator drawings into SAT or STEP formats, which imports them into other 3-D CAD programs. This greatly enhances the existing design process for elevator and escalator manufacturers....
by Andreas Fleischmann | Aug 11, 2011 | General News |
Specialist article at LIFTjournal: http://lift-journal.de/index.php?id=409&L=1 Process optimisation Creation of CAD drawings for lifts and escalators changing Many companies are striving to optimise their processes and looking for solutions enabling them to...
by Andreas Fleischmann | Mar 7, 2011 | General News |
DigiPara® Escalatordesigner* supports now the drawing of horizontal moving walks (0°) and inclined moving walks (10° to 12°). For more information, watch our DigiPara® Escalatordesigner video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCrieVovNpA&hd=1....
by Andreas Fleischmann | Jan 24, 2011 | General News |
Sometimes it is usefull to do specific tasks (i.e. add an overwrite, move an annotative text) in a particular sheet/viewframe. However there is no built-in function in the API to bring back a sheet/viewframe by name. The following VB.NET snippet brings back a specific...
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by Andreas Fleischmann | Jan 21, 2011 | DigiPara® Liftdesigner, DigiPara® Liftdesigner Cloud, General News |
Sematic Group, Italy has released a new web application to generate CAD drawings for their automatic lift doors. This application is based on DigiPara® Liftdesigner and the corresponding DigiPara web application DigiPara® Liftdesigner Automation . You will find more...
by Andreas Fleischmann | Jul 4, 2010 | General News |
In the last time we had several requests from clients to add their own LCID codes. Due to a variable parameter limitation, this behaviour is now available starting with version 5.4. Step 1: L_InternetLCIDTab Register a new local identifier ( LCID). –>...
by Andreas Fleischmann | Jun 10, 2010 | DigiPara® Liftdesigner, General News |
Recently we got several queries with regards to BIM – Building Information Management. Several of our elevator companies are requested to deliver 3D data to enable architects and other of their clients to bring the elevator into the building model. Even one of...
by Andreas Fleischmann | Jun 10, 2010 | DigiPara® Liftdesigner, General News |
We are currently working on version 5.4. 5.4 will be a pure technology upgrade in the following main areas: – new VS2008 compiler support;existing .NET applications compiled with VS 2005 are still working properly – Updated DWG libaries will support...
