For framing contractors
Software for framing contractors
Trace wall runs at the height they are framed, outline sheathing and deck at pitch, count the openings and trusses, then bid the frame from your own rates.
A framing bid is a plan measurement, and the plan keeps changing
Framing is measured off drawings on every job, and it is measured four different ways at once: walls by run and height, sheathing and deck by area, plates, headers and joists by the foot, openings, trusses and posts by the piece. A tool that only draws rectangles makes you do the assembly maths twice: once on the plan and again in a spreadsheet.
Then the architect issues a revision. What arrives is mostly the same drawing with three walls moved and a beam resized, and nothing in an ordinary takeoff tool will tell you which three.
What you get
Built around how this trade actually works
Wall runs with a height, not rectangles
Trace the run, enter the wall height, and the assembly prices per wall square foot (2x4 or 2x6 at 16 on centre) with plates, blocking and backing traced by the foot.
Sheathing and deck by area, pitch aware
Wall sheathing, subfloor and roof deck outline as areas, and the roof deck carries its pitch, so the quantity you price is the sloped surface rather than the footprint.
Openings, trusses and beams
Click each rough window and door opening, each common truss, each structural post. Built-up headers, LVLs and rim board trace by the foot in the same estimate.
Overlay the revised set
Onion-skin the new sheet over the one you measured, step through the differences it found, and swap the revised page in underneath your measurements so nothing already taken off is lost.
A rate on a line belongs to that line
Every condition ships with a starting rate you edit. Typing a rate on one line prices that line. It never quietly re-prices every other line sharing the same item.
Plan changes priced as changes
Scope added after the frame was bid gets reported from the field, priced the same day, and a job will not invoice while a change order is still hanging over it.
How it works
Start to finish
- 1
Switch the framing catalog on
Framing conditions are opt-in. An admin turns the trade on once and the sections appear in the takeoff, the estimate and the reporting.
- 2
Take off the sheets
Calibrate against a printed dimension, trace the walls at their heights, outline the decks, count the openings and trusses.
- 3
Send an itemised bid
Priced from your own rates, as a real document, with an accept link the builder can sign on a phone.
- 4
Schedule it, build it, bill it
A crew owns the job for its span and gets told with the plan stamped on the record; the invoice carries the estimate number.
What the revision compare actually does
A framer’s worst week is the one where a revised set arrives and the differences get found on site. Both sheets are rendered, registered on top of each other and compared: the changed regions are marked on the drawing and numbered so you can step through them, promote any of them to a review marker, and answer the builder with a sheet rather than a memory.
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Swapping the revised page in under your measurements keeps every quantity, label and calibration exactly where it was. Only the drawing beneath changes. The scale is checked as part of the swap, and a revision printed at a different size has to be acknowledged before it can go in, because a silent recalibration is the one failure worse than re-measuring.
Rates that ship with the framing catalog cover material plus installation. Engineering, cranes and unusual access are excluded on purpose rather than guessed at, because a number invented for those is worse than no number.
Common questions
- It is part of Blueprint Takeoff. The framing condition catalog is opt-in (an admin switches the trade on in settings) and once it is on there is nothing further to buy.
See it on your own jobs.
A 20-minute walkthrough, on your real pipeline. No slide deck, no pressure.