Rigid-body ready Industrial digital twin Proprietary but free Partly open · partly paid

KSB Pump & Valve Digital Product Data (VDI 3805 / Revit / PARTcommunity)

Provider:KSB

KSB provides digital product data for pumps and valves — VDI 3805 records, Revit families and multi-CAD files via PARTcommunity (DWG/STEP and more) — integrated with mainstream planning software.

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At a glance

Readiness
L1 · Rigid-body ready
Rationale
The official digital product data offers VDI 3805 data records, Revit family files and multi-CAD files via PARTcommunity (DWG 2D/3D, STEP, Microstation, Allplan and more), so pump and valve geometry yields extractable mass and collision shells, hence L1; the data are exterior geometry plus planning metadata, with no internal mechanism or fluid simulation parameters.
Scale
Covers both the pump and the valve product families (building-services pumps and valves, heating and cooling supply, drinking water and industrial applications up to PN 40); it provides VDI 3805 standard data records, Revit data records (family files plus a plug-in option), multi-CAD file downloads through PARTcommunity and DATANORM exchange-format records, and integrates with planning software such as liNear and Trimble Plancal Nova. (The VDI 3805 data records, the Revit records and plug-in, the PARTcommunity multi-CAD formats (DWG 2D/3D, STEP, Microstation, Allplan and more), DATANORM and the third-party planning-software integrations all come from KSB's official 'Digital Product Data' page, as does the PN 40 upper limit for the covered applications. No total per-vendor data count is published, so coverage is stated by product family and data form. Checked 2026-11-01.)
License
Proprietary but free — The digital product data is free for engineering planning and selection; the intellectual property belongs to KSB and the data may not be redistributed or used outside design; downloading through PARTcommunity requires a registered account and some KSB EasySelect documents require a MyKSB login. The data are exterior geometry and planning metadata; medium compatibility and hydraulic parameters must be established with the official selection tools (KSB EasySelect / KSBuilding Consult), not read off the model.
Access
Partly open · partly paid
Formats
step · other · dict
Runtimes
other
Physics properties
Collision geometryMass / inertiaLiquid
Domain
Fluid / CFD · Solid / Structure
Published
2026-11-01
Updated
2026-11-01

Why it is listed

KSB is a leading pump and valve house, and its two product families — pumps and valves — are exactly the equipment that dominates a district-heating, water or process plant. What distinguishes this entry is the standardisation: the data is published in VDI 3805, the German engineering data standard, alongside Revit families and a DATANORM exchange route. That makes the geometry usable by planning software without hand-conversion.

Readiness assessment

Three delivery routes are offered: VDI 3805-compliant data records for digital planning, Revit data records including family files and a plug-in that queries the KSB product database on the fly, and multi-CAD files through the PARTcommunity platform covering DWG 2D/3D, STEP, Microstation, Allplan and others, plus DATANORM records for item and master data. The geometry gives extractable mass and collision shells — that is L1. It remains exterior device geometry with planning metadata, without internal mechanism or fluid parameters.

Practical notes

Coverage spans building-services pumps and valves for heating and cooling supply, drinking water and industrial applications up to PN 40. Prefer the VDI 3805 route when your planning tool reads it natively, since it carries the calculation options as well as the geometry; the Revit route suits Revit-based workflows, with a plug-in option for on-the-fly access to the whole product database. PARTcommunity downloads need an account. Use KSB EasySelect or KSBuilding Consult to confirm medium compatibility and duty, since a model cannot tell you whether the pump suits the fluid.

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