Engineering
Controls
Customer
Dimensions
Steel Framing
Adds an interior column under the ridge at each frame — lighter rigid frames, lower cost.
Roof panels cantilever past the wall — eave overhangs on the sides, rake overhangs on the ends. Extended rafters & purlins show in framing view.
Heights are above the high-side eave, so the roof hides behind them.
Grab any parapet on the model and drag it up or down — each bay steps on its own
with a live height readout; click one to snap it back to the main height. Or type the
heights bay by bay above. Back-up framing shows in framing view.
Panels
Front endwall
Rear endwall
Left side
Right side
Every wall picks its own siding, framing and sheathing — board & batten
up front on studs with ZIP, AG on girts everywhere else, whatever the job calls for.
Girts carry any panel; checking ZIP switches that wall to studs (sheathing needs them).
Colors show only what every chosen panel comes in.
Colors
Swatches show only the colors available for the selected panel & gauge.
Insulation
Porches
Open the picker and check every bay that gets a porch — checked bays that sit next to each other become one porch. Each porch then has its own roof pitch, attach height, and depth below.
Doors
Check a bay, then open its options to set
size, awning, and Second floor — a window or door upstairs on the mezzanine floor.
Windows
Check a bay to put a window in it — size, awning and Second floor options open right under the row. Storefront glazing prices automatically when a wall's panel is set to glass in Colors.
Awnings
Canopy hoods over doors & windows — roof panel
on outriggers with fascia trim, 1' past each side of the opening. Place doors & windows
in the sections above, then pick a depth here.
Mezzanine
A full-width mezzanine floor in any bay —
beams, joists, deck & support posts. Check the bays that get one:
Truss span — blank = what our purlin carries
Columns apart — blank = the bay
Columns stand on the slab and stop under the floor — they carry the
mezzanine, not the roof. Rafters run the length between them, trusses run across on top
at 2' o.c., and the deck rides the trusses — plywood direct, or steel pan with 3½" of
finished concrete poured into it (priced at your concrete rates). Truss depth, deck
gauge and pad size are all called out on the estimate and the footing sheet.
The engineer of record confirms member sizes.
Exterior stairs
A stair up the outside of a wall to the
upper floor — channel stringers, checkered-plate treads, landing and pipe rail both sides.
Tick “door at the top” and it puts the door in the wall where the stair lands.
Concrete
Slab, turndown footing, column pads, rebar,
mesh & vapor barrier. Size it yourself in Footing design, or let ⚡ Auto footings
work it out from this building's loads.
Erection
We put the building up. Ticking this is what
turns the printed paper into an ETC proposal instead of a materials quote.
Structure
Rigid bases stiffen the frame (~4× less drift, easier H/200) but put
moment into the footings — more anchors, pads see eccentric bearing. Simple bases keep
the footings light; drift is carried by the frame alone. Flows through 🏗 Building
Design, 🔩 CN-3 and the 🧱 pad notes.
Trusses swap the solid tapered rafters for open-web steel trusses —
about 15% less rafter steel, same columns and purlins. Shown in framing view.
Replaces the Z-purlins and girts with 20 ga 50 ksi hat channel rows
at the picked centers — roof and walls. Shown in framing view.
Tightens the roof purlins from 5' to 2' centers so the roof can be sheathed with ZIP board or plywood. Lighter gauge at the close spacing. Shown in framing view.
Puts crane runway brackets on every column line, runway rails down
both sidewalls, and the bridge crane with hoist & end trucks. Priced on the quote;
crane loads on the frames verified by engineering. Shown in framing view.
ZIP under the roof panels, priced per sq ft with the sheet count on the quote — turns on the 2' purlins it fastens to. Wall framing, studs & ZIP are picked per wall with the wall panels in the Panels section.
Bracing
X-braces are the economical choice for open bays; use a portal frame where a door needs the bay clear. Sidewall-braced bays get roof X-bracing automatically; add roof X-braces to any other bay (numbered front→back). Shown in framing view.
Steel Light
Transforms the design to the shop's light-gauge system: 8" × 14 ga
purlin columns with truss rafters built from 4" purlins, a frame every 5' on
center, endwall columns stepping up to the ridge every 5', and hat channel
purlins & girts. All shop-rolled right here — nothing bought in.
Shown in framing view.
Hat channel liner framing on the inside — rows up the
interior walls, and/or a flat ceiling grid at eave height, ready for liner panel.
Each priced by weight on the quote. Shown in framing view. Steel-light system only.
⚙️ Operations — owner only
Owner price lock
Team sign-in is checked by the server — your password, every rate and the margin
live there now, never in this page. Use the 🔒 button in the header to log in or lock.
Rate changes in the Dealer rate sheet save to the server automatically.
Instant quote email
Free account at emailjs.com → add an Email Service and a Template, then paste the
three IDs here. In the template set To = {{to_email}}, Bcc = {{owner_email}}
(so you get a copy), and use {{customer_name}}, {{building_spec}}, {{included}},
{{total_price}}, {{price_persqft}}, {{quote_date}}, {{customer_phone}}, {{site_address}}
in the body.
🤖 AI drawing reader — Claude (Fable 5)
Turns Upload Plans into a real plan reader — actual drawings, scans and photos too.
Get an API key at console.anthropic.com → API Keys (usage bills to your
Anthropic account). The key lives on this device only — it is never baked into
the customer site — and reads run only while you're logged in as owner, so nobody
else can spend your money. A typical plan read costs roughly 10–40¢; the spend log below
tracks every read by job.
📥 Quote requests — from the website
Every quote request from the live site — with the
customer's exact building attached — lands in your owner inbox. It opens in its own window
and asks for your password.
Deploy
Rates and your password live on the server — they never ride inside the file.
This download only carries the email settings, so a hosted or handed-out copy can
send quote emails. Rate changes need no re-download.
Dealer rate sheet
Every dollar figure in the quote comes from these unit rates — this is your price
chart. The first group is the built-up steel you buy in; everything else is
yours to price: your secondary steel, your panels & trim, and every bought-out
component. Changes apply instantly and save straight to the server, so customer
quotes follow immediately — no re-deploy needed.
Fabricator quote — est.
Steel—
Secondary steel—
Bolts & anchors—
Engineering—
Testing / NDT—
Packing to portincluded
His total—
at the mill · no freight, duty or margin
CADLIONS
DESIGN & BUILD
Cadlions LLC
(917) 781-0921 · info@cadlions.com
167 W Dumplin Valley Rd, Kodak, TN 37764
(917) 781-0921 · info@cadlions.com
167 W Dumplin Valley Rd, Kodak, TN 37764
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Estimate covers the fabricated building package (built-up frames, secondary framing,
sheeting, trim, doors/windows as configured) delivered. Steel weights are estimating-grade
takeoffs — final member sizes come from engineering. Excludes: concrete & erection
unless those packages are checked, permits, site-specific engineering, and sales tax.
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