Geometry and profiles
Uprights from the library, one per corner. Crossbeams per side with pitch and minimum distances, clamped above and below the doors. Guide rails anchored to the crossbeams.
Truss
Windows application
Data on site
The shaft structure, from measurements to cutting.
Truss draws the steel structure of the shaft: uprights, crossbeams, cladding, doors, guide rails and fixings. It starts from the measurements and your construction rules, and gives you DXF, IFC, 3D, bill of materials and production documents.
InputShaft data, profiles, doors, cladding, constraints
DXF · IFC · 3DDrawings with title block, BIM model, 3D in HTML
ProductionBill of materials, cutting and bending lists, painting, solid models
Workflow
The engineer enters shaft and stops. Truss does the rest.
Truss places uprights and crossbeams, opens the doors, splits the panels and positions the guide rails. The 3D updates at every change, the drawings redo themselves.
Shaft data
Width, depth, pit, travel, headroom, guide rail gauge.
Profiles and doors
Uprights per corner, crossbeams per side, hinged and sliding doors.
Rules
Crossbeam pitch, clamped members above and below the doors, cladding, roof.
Check in 3D
Panels, constraints, landing walls, interferences.
Drawings
DXF sheet with title block and elevations per side.
Model
IFC for BIM, 3D in HTML, presentation video.
Exploded BOM
Every part with code, dimensions, material, colour and mass.
Production
Shop-floor documents, solid models and DXF of the sheet-metal parts.
Technical office
Parametric rules, not hand drawing.
The rules are the same for every engineer: two people on the same job get the same structure.
Cladding and finishes
Per side or per panel: glass, sheet metal, ventilation panel. Then pit, bracing and RAL colours for every part.
Landing doors
Hinged and sliding doors from the catalogue, with sills and lintels. Doors cut through the cladding and move the crossbeams. If one doesn't fit, Truss tells you before the drawings.
Roof, landings, building
Roof with slope and overhangs, landing walls, adjacent walls and stairwell. Fixings to the building ready for the structural calculation.
Shared rules
About two hundred construction parameters, the same on every workstation.
Configuration in JSON
Every job is a file: start from a similar lift or from another program, like DRIV.
Outputs
Drawings that can be read in the workshop too.
DXF up to A0 with your title block. Every panel has a letter, the same in elevation, table and bill of materials.
DXFOverall sheet up to A0, with title block
DXFElevations of the four sides, also separately
DXFFlat patterns of the sheet-metal parts with engraved marking
IFCBIM model with uprights, crossbeams, panels, doors and constraints
3D3D in HTML, to open in the browser
VIDEOPresentation video of the structure
BOMExploded bill of materials with code, dimensions, colour, mass
LISTCutting list and bending list
XLSPainting by colour, with kg
LISTFasteners, packing list with masses, glass list
CADPart models in SolidWorks and Inventor
kNWeight of the structure and pit forces per upright
One command, “Generate production documents”, and Truss prepares explosion, drawings and printouts, already split by department.
Installation
Everything stays on your network.
Windows application: archive, rules and documents stay at your company. Several workstations share the same archive; if a colleague has the job open, you see it read-only.
Annual licence per workstation or per site. You don't need one just to view drawings, PDFs and 3D. You can try it for one or two months.
- Automatic daily backup, with two weeks of history
- Users and permissions per tab
- You need a PC with Windows 10 or 11 and a network folder
Standalone or inside DRIV
The same engine, two ways of using it.
In DRIV the rules are Truss's. What changes is that you work in the browser, inside the quote, and the bill of materials carries on into costs, purchasing and production.
| Truss | Truss inside DRIV | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it is used | Windows application installed on the PC | Browser, inside the quotation: nothing to install on PCs |
| Starting data | Entered in the Input and Doors tabs | Shaft, stops, doors and guide rails taken from the configured lift |
| Drawings | DXF sheet with title block, elevations per side, axonometric view | Inside drawings, technical file and offer, with cabin, doors, guide rails and operating panels |
| Bill of materials | BOM and explosion in the Truss archive | In the job BOM, with weights, costs, operations and purchasing |
| Shop-floor documents | Cutting and bending lists, painting, fasteners, packing list | Operations, picking, packing list, delivery notes |
| Quotations and offer | Not provided | Price list of the structure and offer with drawings |
Moving from Truss to DRIV you don't start from scratch: you import items, parts and bills of materials, and the rules stay the same.
Discover DRIVBring us a real shaft.
Send us the measurements and doors of a recent job and we'll show it to you in Truss.