Introducing LIFT: The secret weapon for Steel Estimators
LIFT uses AI technology to automate steel takeoffs, helping you save time and eliminate errors. With LIFT, you can extract data from your uploaded blueprints in minutes, not days, allowing your team to complete projects faster and more efficiently.
Experience the power of AI in steel fabrication with LIFT.
How it Works
Upload your PDFs to a new project
LIFT automatically identifies, measures, and counts your material, and lets you manually modify what you need.
Automatically generate your B.O.M and review it with ease
LIFT detects your materials and generates a Bill Of Materials within seconds for you to review.
Share and export your project to the tools you already use
Speed up collaboration with your team with options to export to the most common tools including Tekla, Strumis, Fabtrol, Excel, and more.
Core Features
Give your estimators superpowers with features they love
LIFT helps transform the way steel estimating teams work by helping automate complex takeoff tasks. With LIFT, you can easily track and allocate resources, ensuring efficient project execution.
Analyze large documents easily
Quickly upload and analyze even large complex projects with hundreds of pages.
Categorize and name elements quickly
Name and adjust various pieces of your bids with group select and global edit features for extra control.
Calculate weights & volumes automatically
Accurately determine the weight and volume of materials needed for a takeoff.
Generate B.O.M.s in a click
Automatically create your Bill Of Materials inside the LIFT interface.
Detect materials in seconds
Detect, categorize, and count structural steel pieces like beams, columns, and braces.
Export project data to your favourite tools
LIFT can export data into Tekla, Strumis, Excel, and more.
Automatically label beam attributes
Capture shape, size, stud counts and camber from labels.
Automated connection analysis
Analyze framing conditions, moments, copes, holes and more automatically.
Customer Stories
Hear from our customers
Experts across the steel industry love working and LIFT and the SketchDeck.AI Team
“Without LIFT, I don't think we ever would have even tried to take on that job.
But because we had it, we knew we could use it to shortcut the process. And that's exactly what we did. But because we had it, we knew we could use it to shortcut the process. And that's exactly what we did.”
— Troy Ernst, Chief Estimator at King Steel
Test LIFT on your latest bid for free.
Book a demo and let us show you with your own blueprints exactly how LIFT works.
