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Digital Project is a computer-aided design (CAD) software application based on
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Digital Project is a computer-aided design (CAD) software application based on CATIA
CATIA (, an acronym of computer-aided three-dimensional interactive application) is a multi-platform software suite for computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), computer-aided engineering (CAE), 3D modeling and Product ...
V5 and developed by Gehry Technologies, a technology company owned by the architect Frank Gehry.
Among the changes made by Gehry Technologies to CATIA is a new visual interface suitable for architecture work. With the release of version R5 Digital Project is compatible with CATIA V5R22.
Digital Project is widely known as the software used to design the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, and located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. The museum was inaugurated on 18 October 1997 by King Juan Carlos I of Sp ...
, completed on time and within budget, and the Louis Vuitton Foundation
The Louis Vuitton Foundation (French: ''Fondation d'entreprise Louis-Vuitton''), previously Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation (''Fondation Louis-Vuitton pour la création''), is a French art museum and cultural center sponsored by the group LV ...
, which cost ten times original projections and exceeded its schedule.
Digital Project (like CATIA) enables information to be sent directly to manufacturer, rather than needing to be processed separately in preparation for sending out of house.
On their website Gehry Technology list the following functionality in their DigitalProject:Designer product: generative surfaces design, project organization, parametric 3D surfaces, free-style surface modeling (NURBS), design to fabrication, dynamic sectioning, revision tracking and part comparison, advanced solids modeling and integration with Microsoft Project
Digital Project competes as Building information modeling software with products like ArchiCAD and Revit
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. It has been used on projects such as Sagrada Familia Sagrada is a Spanish word meaning "sacred
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, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, and located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. The museum was inaugurated on 18 October 1997 by King Juan Carlos I of Sp ...
, Ray and Maria Stata Center
The Ray and Maria Stata Center or Building 32 is a 430,000-square-foot (40,000 m2) academic complex designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The building opened for initia ...
, Walt Disney Concert Hall and Hejmdal, The Danish Cancer Societies House.
In 2014 Trimble acquired Gehry Technology, the developers of Digital Project.
See also
*Comparison of computer-aided design editors
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References
External links
DigitalProject:Designer product page
at Georgia Tech's website
has some articles on using Digital Project
describes the Danish exhibition ”Digital Project – Frank Gehry’s Vision” Computer-aided design software Building information modeling {{CAD-software-stub