article may not meet wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources data design system news newspapers books scholar jstor free images may 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message data design system as type public industry cad building information modeling software founded stavanger norway 1984 headquarters stavanger norway products dds cad website dds cad.com data design system as dds supplies the construction industry with software tools for building information modelling bim . the company was founded in 1984 in stavanger norway . since then more than 13 500 licenses of dds cad have been installed mainly in europe . dds is an active member of buildingsmart . dds has its headquarters at stavanger norway . other locations include oslo and bergen both in norway . dds has several subsidiaries among them dds building innovation as and data design system gmbh . dds is a company in the nemetschek group . the main product line is tools for building services mep mechanical electrical plumbing engineers . data design system gmbh distributes dds cad mep mainly in the continental europe . data design system gmbh has its main office in ascheberg germany . dds building innovation as develops software tools for design and production of timber frame buildings . the main product is dds cad architect & construction . dds building innovation is located at the dds headquarters at stavanger . see also edit comparison of cad editors for aec comparison of cad cam and cae file viewers external links edit data design system building services engineering cad software working with ifc building models buildingsmart wiki for ifc dds ifcviewer v t e building information modeling bim companies autodesk archibus buildingsmart data design system tekla vectorworks nemetschek graitec trimble software current autodesk revit archicad codebook dds cad digital project openstudio rfem tekla structures tekla bimsight trimble sketchup vico office navisworks microstation vectorworks architect allplan graitec advance idea architectural fine mep visualarq historic rucaps sonata reflex related topics 3d bim 4d bim 5d bim 6d bim bs 1192 computer aided design cobie geometric modeling kernel industry foundation classes retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title data design system & oldid 708493041 categories building information modelingcomputer aided design softwarecomputer aided design software for windowssoftware companies of norwaysoftware companies established in 1984hidden categories articles with topics of unclear notability from may 2012all articles with topics of unclear notability navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages norsk bokm l edit links this page was last modified on 5 march 2016 at 22 33 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view