CYPE Lightning is a free application designed to carry out the 3D layout of the elements of a lightning safety installation in any type of building, complying with the requirements imposed by users.
The program calculates, verifies and describes the safety installation including all the elements it consists of: ESE type lightning rod (early streamer emission lightning conductor), boxes with their respective grounding connections, connections with metal elements on façades and with receiver sets (antennas), grounding conductors, etc. The program, additionally, generate documents and relevant drawings to justify the lightning protection installation.
"CYPE Lightning" is integrated in the Open BIM workflow using the IFC standard. The program imports the geometry of the building from the BIM model (generated by CAD/BIM programs such as IFC Builder, Allplan, Archicad or Revit) and, if the risk level of the project has been evaluated with the "Open BIM CTE SUA 8" application, the value of the distance to the centre of the fictitious sphere, D, which describes the protection volume of the ESE, can be obtained from the BIM project.
Furthermore, "CYPE Lightning" exports an IFC file to the BIM model, containing the document that justifies the standard (.pdf). It also generates two independent 3D files (.gltf) to be able to view the lightning protection installation, as well as the properties of each element, and the protection volume in the web viewer of the BIMserver.center platform.
CYPE Lightning can be downloaded from the BIMserver.center platform.
More information on this new CYPE Open BIM program will be available shortly.
