The machine reads.
A person decides.
Most detailing offices check a sheet by having a second person read it. We have software read every dimension on it back against the model first, so the checker spends their time on the few that need a decision. And you watch all of it, live.
- 1 · Briefmachine files and indexes; a detailer reads and asks
- 2 · Modelmachine places the framing in SDS/2; a detailer confirms
- 3 · Connecta detailer designs connections to your practice
- 4 · Checkmachine reads every dimension back against the model
- 5 · Judgea checker decides the amber and the red, and signs
- 6 · Issuemachine records the revision; your approver signs on screen
Six steps.
In detail.
Red steps are done by software. Green steps are done by a person who has detailed steel for years. The order never changes, and no step is skipped to make a date.
Brief Machine collects
Your contract drawings, specifications, shop standards and the sequence go into one job folder and are indexed within minutes, so every page is findable by the whole team from the first hour. A detailer reads the set and raises the first questions on day one rather than week three: a grid that moves between the plan and the elevation, a beam size on the schedule that is not on the plan, a specification clause your standards do not cover.
Model Machine places
Software reads the framing plans and places the columns, beams and braces in SDS/2 at the right grids, elevations and sizes. A detailer walks the model against the drawings and confirms it. On one recent job that was 1,673 members placed in 205 seconds. Detailing starts from a model, not a blank screen.
Connect Person judges
A detailer designs the connections: to the engineer's reactions and criteria, to your shop practice, to what your lines can cut. This is judgement and it stays with a person. Anything the drawings do not settle becomes an RFI with a sketch, and the model carries a note until the answer comes back.
Check Machine checks
When a sheet is drawn, software reads every dimension and mark on it back against the model. Agreements go green. A dimension within a sixteenth goes amber. A mismatch goes red and names the grid. On one project that was 258,808 dimensions and marks read in twenty minutes. A person could not read them all; the software reads every one, every time.
Judge Person judges
A checker opens the sheet and sees only the amber and the red. They decide each one: a rounding to accept, a dimension to correct, a model error to send back to the detailer. Then they sign. Their name is on the sheet, and the record shows which dimensions they looked at.
Issue Machine records
The sheet goes out under drawing control: revision mark, date, reason, and the list of what changed since the last issue. Your approver signs on screen, or sends it back with a comment pinned to the sheet. Nothing is reissued quietly, and the full history stays with the job.
What you see
while we work
One screen per job, open to you from the day the brief arrives. No Friday report, no asking.
- 01Progress by sequence.Members modelled, sheets drawn, sheets checked, sheets issued. Counts, not opinions.
- 02RFIs with a time stamp.Raised, sent, answered, closed. Each one with its sketch, and the sheets it holds up.
- 03Approvals on screen.Your approver signs or comments on the sheet itself. Revisions are listed with their reason.
- 04The check record.For any sheet: which dimensions were read, what they were read against, who signed.
Your morning is
our evening
Detailing teams in India, a company in the US Midwest. A question sent at the end of your day is answered before your next one starts.
Same dayQuestions
RFIs and questions raised by us carry a sketch and the sheets they hold up. Questions from you are answered the same working day.
By sequencePackages
Anchor rods and the advance bill of material first, then shop drawings sequence by sequence in the erector's order, against the dates you give us.
One ownerYour contact
One detailer owns your job from brief to last revision. The job screen is theirs too, so what you see is what they see.
Send us one package.
One set of drawings, one phase, one sequence. You get it back checked, with the check visible, and a live screen showing every step.
Start a package— contract drawings and specs
— your shop standards
— the sequence or phase
— the date you need it