Stoneset Forge
Takeoff you can trace to the drawing.
A big tender can take a full day to count by hand. Forge reads the drawings, finds the steel and lays every member out for your estimator to check, each one linked to the sheet and revision it came from.
Film: how Forge will work
Illustration of the planned product using an example tender. A drawing set of 42 sheets is dropped into Forge. Forge reads the sheets, finds 318 members and measures each one from the drawing’s dimensions. The estimator accepts lines with the Enter key, accepts the 300 that match the beam schedule in one go, corrects B3 after checking the drawing, and raises a query on B5 because its mark is unreadable. The estimate is built from checked lines only, leaves B5 out, and each figure links back to the drawing and dimension it came from.
Forge is in development. The film shows how it will work, using an example tender.
Your estimator starts at the checking.
Forge does the counting. The estimator does what only they can: decide whether each line is right.
Drop in the drawing set
The PDFs exactly as they came from the contractor. Forge sorts the sheets and spots the revisions.
Forge finds the steel
Every member, its section, its grid position and the sheet it came from. Anything it can’t read is flagged, never guessed.
Your estimator checks it
Accept a line with one key. Accept everything that matches the beam schedule in one go. Spend the time on the lines that don’t.
Price from checked steel
Tonnage by section, built only from lines a person has checked. Click any figure to see the drawing behind it.
What Forge won’t do.
Rules it’s built to, so you can trust the number you send out.
It won’t guess.
If a section mark is smudged or a dimension is missing, the line goes to a person or becomes a query.
It won’t overwrite what it read.
A correction sits beside the original reading, with who made it and why.
It won’t hide what’s missing.
A total that leaves lines out says which ones, and why.
It won’t leave the sums to a model.
Finding members on a drawing can be assisted. Measurements and arithmetic follow fixed rules you can check.
Get Forge first.
Forge is for UK structural steel fabricators, starting with the estimator who prices the tender. It’s being built and tested on real tender drawings inside a working fabrication shop.
We’re opening it to a small number of fabricators first. Leave your details and we’ll be in touch when there’s a place.