United States site instead?Smart GDL objects offer architects and designers the optimal way of incorporating manufactured components, such as doors, windows, steel and pre-cast concrete products in their designs
Budapest, 24 February, 2004 – Graphisoft made its GDL Publishing software
freely available on its website. This will benefit architects and designers
who wish to see a much greater availability of GDL product catalog objects
to incorporate into their designs.
“The Construction industry is adopting product model-based data management
processes from design to facility management. There is an increasing need for
manufacturers’ electronic product data in this process.” said Andras Haidekker,
Director of Partner Development at Graphisoft. “To enable the design community
to use more model-based product information, we have made access to our GDL
Software at no charge.”
The use of smart GDL objects greatly speeds up design work. Smart objects
are optimal for describing manufactured components, such as doors, windows,
steel and pre-cast concrete products and furniture. Entire product lines of
hundreds of product codes can be described by just three to four GDL objects,
taking only a few hundred kilobytes of disk space. Once a user has set their
parameter values, they can be displayed accurately in 2D and/or 3D, according
to the specifications of the real world products they represent. Read more
about intelligent GDL objects at www.graphisoft.com/gdl/.
The GDL Publishing tools being made available are GDL Web Control, GDL Adapter
and GDL Explorer. By using GDL Web Control, building products can be displayed
on HTML pages and their parameters set and dragged into the design. AutoCAD®
users can also take advantage of GDL objects; GDL Adapter allows them to make
full use of the functionality of smart GDL objects within their building design
projects. GDL Explorer provides a utility allowing users to view GDL Objects
and save them in different CAD formats, without having to use a CAD package.
Today, tens of thousands of GDL objects are available for use in CAD design.
Prestigious companies such as Casawell, Corus, Kömmerling, Martela, Sofa, Technal,
Trus Joist, Velux, Wiesner Hager and Wilkhahn have successfully used GDL objects
to represent their product lines.
“Establishing our entire furniture product line as smart GDL objects
at martela.gdlcentral.com
was extremely well received by the designer community,” said Jarmo Laukka,
Director of Group Marketing at Martela. “We are happy that Graphisoft
has now decided to make access to this brilliant technology much easier.”