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The complete guide to Liftdesigner — from first steps to finished drawings.

digipara Liftdesigner

Build an Elevator Project

Select your project's drawings manually from the sheet templates in your data pool — either while creating a new elevator project, or later by adding a sheet to an existing…

Add Drawings to Your Project

Create Quotation Package

Create a presentable elevator project within 15 minutes.

Quick Tour

First Steps with DigiPara Liftdesigner

Your starting point for mastering Liftdesigner. Learn how to set up the software, navigate the interface, and get up to speed with guided video tours — everything you need before diving into your first project.

Overview

The DigiPara Liftdesigner user interface

Start screen

Ribbon tabs

Docking Windows

Find your way around the program window: the ribbon, the design area with its sheet tabs, the docking windows, and the Program Options dialog where language, 3D and appearance settings live.

User Interface

From template to ready-to-edit project in a few steps.

Create a new project

Update your project's master data and shaft specifications at any time after the project has been created.

Edit project data

Arrange two or more elevators in a single bank or face-to-face group using the Group Shaft Configurator.

Configure an elevator group

Use the Rope Wizard to update an elevator's rope course in one guided, 5-step dialog.

Update the rope course with the Rope Wizard

It handles the copy component workflow without requiring you to switch between Liftdesigner and Datamanager.

Save to a New BIM Component

Add a wall opening (a void cut into a wall) or a wall segment (an extra piece of wall) relative to a shaft or other component.

Add an Additional Wall Opening or Segment

Create projects, configure components, and load sheet groups..

Project-based work

Select a car frame product for the elevator, set its dimensions, and adjust its distance to the guide rails.

Customize the car frame

Activate and configure the cabin design using the Cabin Configurator.

Configure the cabin design

Select and dimension a car door, position it relative to the car.

Position the car door

Set a landing door's dimensions and sill clearance, configure the jamb that frames it and also its fixing brackets.

Configure landing doors and jambs

Select a counterweight (CWT) frame product for the elevator, choose its roping arrangement, and set its dimensions and position in the shaft.

Configure the counterweight

The safety gear, the overspeed governor, and the tensioning weight all belong to the same component chain under the car frame or CWT.

Position the safety gear, governor, and tensioning weight

DigiPara Liftdesigner offers several rail bracket products for different mounting situations within the standard library.

Set up the rail brackets

Select and activate a buffer, set how many buffers are present, and configure its dimensions.

Customize a buffer

Configure a pit ladder for the elevator shaft — choose a ladder type from the Common Components library, then set its step and fixing parameters.

Adapt the pit ladder

Configure the lamps list setting which wall they sit on, how many there are and how they're spaced.

Position the shaft lamps

Add a ventilation window to a machine room or a ventilation (deairing) opening to a shaft

Configure ventilation windows

Position the traction machine in the shaft or machine room, set its roping course and angle, and choose its performance data.

Configure the traction machine

Choose which gear frame variant to use, set how the rope distance above the frame is determined, and choose how the frame is mounted in the machine room.

Modify the gear frame

Set up and adjust the main elevator components in your project.

Configure Common Components

Copy or insert view frames into standard sheet template, configure how each one displays, and save the result for reuse.

Add and Customize View Frames in a Standard Sheet Template

Fine-tune how an existing view frame displays its content: crop it to a specific region, pin the car at a custom height, control where a landing door in a plan…

Configure Advanced View Frame Display Settings

Style, link, and resize the dimensions on a view frame.

Customize Dimensions on a View Frame

Insert an annotation — a text note or symbol that isn't itself a measurement — onto a component or directly onto a view frame.

Add and Configure Annotations on a View Frame

Find, duplicate, or remove the dimension, annotation, and component overwrites on a view frame.

Manage Overwrites for a View Frame

Build your own drawing border and title block as DWG files, add your company logo, and combine them into a standard sheet template you can reuse across projects.

Create a Custom Drawing Border and Title Block

DWG external references can be listed and edited from a single dialog directly in Liftdesigner.

Manage External References

Load sheet templates and adapt them according to your needs.

Configure Drawing Templates

Turn your project into deliverables — export data and print or plot your results.

Results

Overview of the file formats DigiPara Liftdesigner can export a 2D drawing to, and which application to use for opening each one.

Export 2D format outputs

Export the current 3D view of your DigiPara Liftdesigner project, so you can open it in a 3D CAD application, review or render it.

Export 3D format outputs

Reuse a detailed component you already modeled in Autodesk® Inventor®, SolidWorks®, or PTC Creo® directly inside your DigiPara Liftdesigner project

Import 3D formats

Link a CAD Model's Dimensions to Liftdesigner Parameters (Parameter Mapping)

Integrate 3D formats

Use the Excel Reporting docking window to create Excel reports of your DigiPara Liftdesigner project

Create an Excel report

Control your DigiPara Liftdesigner project via an Excel spreadsheet.

Integrate an Excel project automation

Export and import project data in 2D or 3D formats.

Data Exchange

Configure which BIM properties are included in your project's IFC, RFA, and LDBIM exports

Set Up Project BIM Settings for Export

Define your own BIM property and store it directly inside the project, so it exports with your IFC, RFA, or LDBIM file alongside the standard properties.

Create a Project-Specific BIM Property

Export your DigiPara Liftdesigner project as an IFC, RFA, or LDBIM file, so you can hand off a BIM-ready elevator model to Revit or another BIM-capable application.

Export BIM format outputs

Configure, export, and exchange BIM data between Liftdesigner and Revit or other BIM-capable applications

BIM integration

The Datamanager is the separate DigiPara application used to edit the content of the Liftdesigner database.

What Is the Liftdesigner Datamanager?

Package a manufacturer module into a single file, so you can share with other users or transfer to another workstation.

Export a Manufacturer Module

Manage libraries, templates, licenses, and company-wide standards.

Administration

Build a new component for your own manufacturer library.

Create a Custom Component

Export one or more database tables to an Excel file.

Export  Component Tables to Excel

Keep manufacturer libraries up to date, create your own components, and share libraries across your team.

Component Libraries

Export a set of DataManager message texts to Excel so a translator can add another language's wording, then import the completed file back in.

Export and Import Translations

Creation & management of sheet templates.

Drawing Template Libraries

Build a new render color and texture in the DataManager and make it available on Liftdesigner

Create a Custom Render Color and Texture

Creation & management of components textures

Materials and Surfaces libraries

Upload and share Manufacturer Modules (*.ldm12)

Upload a Manufacturer Module to DigiPara Liftdesigner Cloud

Manage, maintain, and share your libraries via the cloud

DigiPara Liftdesigner Cloud

The database tables behind Datamanager component development.

Component Data Reference

L_CarFrameTypeTab

L_CarFrameDimTab

L_GuideShoeTab

L_DoorTypeTab

L_DoorDimTab

L_DoorMachineTab

L_CarPlatformTab

L_SafetyGearTab

L_GovenorTab

L_TensioningWeightTab

L_TableauTab

L_COPProtectionTab

L_BufferTab

L_BufferForceTab

L_GuidesTab

L_FishplateTab

L_CarBalustradeTab

Database tables explanation for the car group. 

Component tables CAR

L_CarDesignTab

L_CarWallTab

L_CarWallPanelTab

L_CarMirrorsTab

L_CarMirrorTab

L_CarHandRailsTab

L_CarHandRailTab

L_CarBumperRailsTab

L_CarBumperRailTab

L_CarEmergencyDoorTab

L_CarSeatTab

L_CarKickPlatesTab

L_CarKickPlateTab

L_CarCeilingTab

L_CarCeilingPanelsTab

L_CarCeilingPanelRowTab

L_CarCeilingPanelTab

L_CarTrapDoorTab

L_CarFloorTab

L_CarFloorPanelsTab

L_CarFloorPanelRowTab

L_CarFloorPanelTab

L_CarLightsTab

L_CarLightTab

Database tables explanation for the cabin design group.

Component tables CAR DESIGN

L_DoorConnectTab

L_JambTypeTab

L_JambConnectTab

L_JambWallOpeningPresetTab

L_SillSupportTab

L_DoorFixingTab

L_JambTableauSituationTypeTab

L_DoorFixingPointGrpTab

L_DoorFixingPointTab

Database tables explanation for the entrances group.

Component tables ENTRANCES

L_CylSupportTab

L_CylinderBucklingTab

L_YokeGuideTab

L_HyAggTankTab

L_HYTPartTab

L_CylinderDimTab

Database tables explanation for the hydraulic units group.

Component tables HYDRAULIC UNITS

L_CWDimTab

L_CWGuardScreenTab

L_GearArtTab

L_GearFrameTypeTab

L_GearFrameTab

L_GearConnectFrameTab

L_GearBaseConstructionTab

L_GearPerformanceTab

Database tables explanation for the traction units group.