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Settings: your instructions, your skills, your roll-former
Tell Stud once how you work. Instructions apply to every project, skills hold your methods, and your roll-former's tools decide what it places.
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Resources
Guides, tutorials and updates for prefab builders.
How to go from a 2D plan to quantities and production files with Stud, what changes in the product, and what we learn along the way.
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Two plans: Take-off for quantities, Framer for production
Take-off turns a 2D plan into the quantities you price with, exported to Excel, CSV and PDF. Framer adds panels, framing and every production export.
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UpdateLight gauge steel
Production exports are live: machine files, IFC and production PDFs
The framed model now leaves Stud as machine files for Howick and Tekla Pinnacle roll-formers, IFC for the team, and PDFs for the shop floor.
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Tutorials
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TutorialLight gauge steel
How to export machine files, IFC and production PDFs
From a framed model to production: download machine files for Howick or Tekla Pinnacle roll-formers, the IFC and the framing and panel PDFs.
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TutorialTake-off
How to get quantities from a 2D plan
Drop a DXF, PDF or image plan into Stud, answer the agent's questions, then read and export wall, floor and roof areas, openings and weights.
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TutorialTake-off
How to prepare a plan for Stud
DXF, PDF, plan image or hand sketch: what to send, what to check before you send it, and what to write in the brief so the agent has nothing to guess.
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Articles
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ArticleTake-off
Construction take-off from 2D plans with AI: what works today
An AI agent can read a DXF, a PDF or a plan image and give you wall, floor and roof quantities. What works today, and where it still needs you.
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ArticleTake-off
DXF vs PDF vs image: what to give a take-off tool
DXF, PDF, plan image or hand sketch: what each format carries, what a take-off tool reads from it, and how to send it so nothing is guessed.
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ArticleAI agent
What an AI agent for construction actually does (and what it doesn't)
Not a chatbot, not a drawing tool: an agent reads your plan, builds the model, asks what is missing and does the steps. What that means, and its limits.
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