Shaft surveying for elevator companies

15 minutes from arriving on site to a shaft PDF you can order from.

From the moment the technician reaches the building to the moment the PDF lands — pit, travel, headroom and the narrowest clear width, measured automatically by the web app — 15 minutes pass.

Nobody in that chain needs technical measuring skills.

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iPhone Pro

The only hardware on site

Automatic

Narrowest clear width, found for you

No entry

Captured from the landing

Real capture — dimensions read off the model, not the tape

The whole job, four steps

Arrival to PDF · about 15 minutes

STEP 01

Scan from the landing

Open the app, name the project, hold the phone at the shaft entrance and move steadily. No shaft entry, no ladder, no second visit.

STEP 02

It uploads itself

The scan syncs to the web platform as soon as there is a connection. If the basement has no signal, it waits on the device and sends later.

STEP 03

The platform measures

Pit, travel, headroom and the narrowest clear width are taken off the model automatically. Anything else you need, you measure by clicking two points.

STEP 04

PDF out, order in

Export the shaft sheet or send it straight to an engineer. That document is what the lift gets ordered against.

Laser accuracy, with the evidence attached.

A laser gives you a number. It does not give you the shaft. 3DLiftLens keeps the photorealistic model behind every dimension, so a measurement can be checked, re-taken or questioned months later without anyone driving back to the building.

And the narrowest point of the shaft — the one that decides the car — is recorded automatically instead of being hunted for by hand.

Tape & laser

Numbers on a notepad. Trust the person who took them.

3DLiftLens

Numbers with the shaft attached. Re-measure any time, from anywhere.

Clear width 1,36 m · pit 1,40 m — measured in the browser

The deliverable

This is what comes out.

Not a 3D model for someone else to interpret — a survey sheet with the figures already taken, the narrowest point already found, and a link back to the scan they came from.

shaft 198 · lift shaft survey · 27 August 2026 · dimensions in metres

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Pit depth

0.67 m

Headroom

3.61 m

Travel

11.55 m

Shaft width (narrowest)

1.68 m

Shaft depth (narrowest)

2.19 m

Stops

The shaft, storey by storey

Stop	Height	Width	Depth	Twist
0	0.00	1.71	2.26	1.8°
1	2.84	1.73	2.25	0.2°
2	5.73	1.73	2.27	0.2°
3	8.65	1.73	2.25	0.2°
4	11.54	1.74	2.24	0.1°
5	14.62	1.75	2.19	0.2°

Narrowest clear opening: 1.68 m × 2.19 m, at 1.10 m above the lowest stop.

Furthest out of true: 1.8° against the pit — 0.04 m at the corners, at 0.00 m.

Read from the scan itself, not from a measurement drawn by hand.

On the phone, in the office

One app for the field, one platform for everyone else. Scans, dimensions and project history stay in the same place.

Works with no signal

Scans are held on the device and sent automatically when the connection comes back.

Every storey, one model

The whole shaft in a single capture — landings, sills and obstructions included.

Send it on, keep the record

Share a scan with an engineer or a client by link, or export the file. The project stays archived.

Two very different companies buy this for the same reason

Independent lift companies

Quote today, not next week

The owner, the technician and the office all read the same shaft sheet. One survey visit, one document, and a quotation that goes out the same day.

OEMs & multinationals

One survey standard, every country

Field teams of any skill level produce identical, auditable shaft records. Engineering receives the same file from every site, with the model to check it against.

Scan your next shaft this week.

Create an account, install the app on an iPhone Pro and survey a real shaft. The first shaft tells you whether it saves you the second trip to the building.

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