It frames the building the way a crew would

The geometry engine derives every member of a post-frame building from the spec: sidewall posts on bay lines with corner posts, end wall posts stopping at the eave with 2x6 gable studs above, a treated skirt board at grade, girts on the post faces, an eave strut, trusses on the bay lines, purlins spliced over trusses into stock lengths, and the full trim package (corner, eave fascia, soffit, eave return band, rake boards, ridge cap).

Also called: framing engine · post frame geometry · posts girts purlins trusses · real framing not blocks

1. 1Naming follows ANSI/ASABE S618 (post, girt, purlin, truss, skirt board, eave/rake overhang) so the takeoff is legible to the industry and maps onto SmartBuild's vocabulary.
2. 2The wall stack-up is the real section, out-of-wall: posts with faces at the wall line, girts and skirt and eave strut nailed ON the post faces, steel skin on the girt plane.
3. 3Sidewall girt runs wrap the corner by one board thickness and the end wall runs butt into their backs — the standard lap-and-butt a crew frames.
4. 4Horizontal runs are split at every post so each cut is a real stock length, not a 60ft stick; purlins splice over truss lines into 20ft maximum stock.
5. 5Members that carry end cuts are emitted as extruded 2D profiles (the engine computes the cut polygon, the renderer extrudes it).

• ◆A shell-only model that cannot produce a framing order.
• ◆Members drawn at lengths no yard stocks.
• ◆Framing that ignores how pieces actually join.