Rebuilt from the ground up to help fabricators and erectors make material and commercial decisions earlier.
Steel demand is through the roof, and material availability is the new bottleneck. SketchDeck 3.0 pairs the #1 model for structural steel with more of each job in one place, so your takeoff gets you to decisions sooner.
Why we rebuilt it
A surge in data center construction and new steel tariffs have put the industry in an unprecedented position.
Lead times keep stretching. Miss a mill allocation and the next chance to buy can be months away.
Projects are committed before designs are mature, and the fabricator has to absorb the changes after award.
So we rebuilt SketchDeck from the ground up to help fabricators and erectors make material and commercial decisions earlier.
Read the full storySee SketchDeck 3.0 on your own drawings.
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What 3.0 gives you
Accuracy
Every material decision starts with an accurate takeoff. SketchDeck finds the beams, columns and bracing, sizes and measures them, and shows what it found and what it didn't, so estimators check the takeoff instead of redoing it.
Speed
Automations match revised sheets, read scales and classify sheets, so every job takes less setup. And the new platform is rebuilt to ship faster.
Control
Connection material, markups, section links and bid tracking live with the takeoff, with roles and permissions for your team.
Everything from the launch video, with the In Beta tools you can try now.
Add connection material right in the takeoff. Select the members, add the plates and bolts once, and they're applied to every member you selected.
See the frame in 3D, straight from your drawings. Turn your 2D takeoff into an interactive 3D model.
Chase a column top to bottom. The schedule sits beside the plan.
Count anything on the drawing. Areas, polylines, counts and notes, with quantities that update as you go.
More of the takeoff done for you. Revised sheets are matched to the originals, scales are read and sheets are classified, so setup takes less time.
Follow any callout straight to its section or detail. Read it without leaving the plan.
Multi-page drawing sets in one view. Built for bigger, more complex jobs.
Bids5 active
All bidsAssigned to meDue this week
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Access
Data Center Phase 2
See where every bid stands. Assign work, set due dates and control who can see and change what.
Continuous runs, spaced items and stock-length cuts.
Send us a set and we'll run it in 3.0 on the call.
Book a demoCatch every change in a revised set. Load the new drawings, line them up, and see what changed and by how much.
Bill of materialsCapital.pdf
Export
PowerFab
ExcelExport in your system's format. Takeoff lands in PowerFab, STRUMIS, Bluebeam or Excel without rework.
500+ estimators use SketchDeck to build hospitals, stadiums and data centers.
“Since bringing SketchDeck into our quantity takeoff process, we've at least tripled our throughput. What used to take days on big data center jobs now takes a fraction of the time.”
Steelworks of the Carolinas“[SketchDeck] has dramatically improved both my speed and efficiency. I'm easily 50% faster now, and on my biggest job, a 600-ton project, it saved me 75% of my time.”
Dawn HargravesEstimator, Maccabee Industrial“It'd be awful not to have [SketchDeck]. We're relying on it now.”
Troy ErnstVice President of Estimating, King Steel“What used to take (an estimator) two days to do, it does it within a few minutes. I've been amazed at every step of the process.”
Nathan WhitleyChief Estimator, FabArc Steel