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Step 1 of 17: Create the Practice Elevator Project

A3.1: Preparation Steps

Written by Alexandra Göttert

This article is part of a sequential step-by-step tutorial covering view frames and section planes, special view types, sheets and sheet templates, annotations, the Data tree and project references, External$'s, external blocks (DWGs), title blocks and drawing borders, and a final practice exercise.

Prerequisites

  • DigiPara Liftdesigner installed.

  • You can edit DWG files.

Steps

  1. Create the practice elevator project. Using the Shaft Wizard, create a project with:

    • 5 floors, typical floor-to-floor distance 3000 mm

    • Consider travel: No; Create building floor levels: No

    • Traction elevator, 2:1 roping

    • 13 persons / 1000 kg, 1 m/s, with CW safety gear

    • Machine room: Below / left

    • Car roping: 2 pulleys below

    • Counterweight roping: left, 1 rope pulley top

    • Sheet templates: LD Installation Drawing, LD Typical Views For Your Elevator

    • Car size: width 1600 mm, depth 1400 mm

    • Entrances: front on all floors, rear on the first and last level

    • Individual floor-to-floor distances: Pit 1200 mm; E1 2900 mm; E2 3000 mm; E3 3000 mm; E4 3800 mm

    • Save it under the file name LDTrainingSample.ld3.

Result

A practice elevator project exists with the exact configuration needed for the view frame, sheet, annotation, and project reference exercises in the following steps.

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