Prerequisites
You've worked through the general practical examples (rail brackets, door mountings, platforms, panels).
Steps
Preparation: create the practice project
1.) Create and save the practice project. Using the Shaft Wizard, create a project with:
5 floors, typical floor-to-floor distance 3000 mm
Consider travel: No; Create building floor levels: No
Traction elevator 2:1
8 persons / 630 kg, 1 m/s
MRL, top
Car roping 2 pulleys below, without CW safety gear
Counterweight roping 1 pulley top, counterweight right
Sheet templates LD Installation Drawing and LD Typical Views For Your Elevator
Car width 1100 mm, car depth 1400 mm
Entrances front on all floors, no rear entrance
Pit 1200 mm, E1 2900 mm, E2 3000 mm, E3 3000 mm, E4 3800 mm
Save it as LDTrainingSampleA2_02.ld3.
Counterweight location
2.) Open the Rope Wizard. For existing projects, change the counterweight location to another wall side via the Rope Wizard — activate it via the traction machine, counterweight, pulley, or pulley beam properties. If your project isn't far advanced, it's usually cleaner to create a new project with the Shaft Wizard and choose a different counterweight position there.
3.) Reposition the counterweight in step 4 of 5.
Pitfall: No logic automatically swaps other components or positions (such as the doors) when you move the counterweight — set these manually.
4.) Adjust the distance between the centers. Change it in the properties of the parent counterweight object, or directly via the corresponding dimension in the drawing.
Counterweight pulley beam settings
5.) Open the pulley beam properties. After moving the counterweight, check the rope alignment and adjust the pulley beam. Common-component pulley beams have no geometry by default, so select them via the pulley beam link in the Breadcrumb window — for example, starting from one of the subordinate pulleys.
6.) Adapt the arrangement. Change the pulley beam angle.
7.) Adapt the position. Use the counterweight frame properties.
Result
The counterweight is moved to another wall side via the Rope Wizard, its center distance is adjusted, and the counterweight pulley beam is realigned to match.
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