Stud Reviews & Product Details

Stud is a browser-based AI agent for prefab builders and for light gauge steel and timber frame panel manufacturers who receive 2D plans, price them, and build the jobs they win. The user drops the plan as received into the chat (a DXF with its layers, a PDF, a plan image or a hand sketch) with a short brief. The agent reads the plan, finds the levels, walls and openings, and builds the building in 3D. When a dimension is missing, it uses a standard value and lists it as an assumption for the user to keep or correct. From that model, Stud gives the quantities to price the job, per level and in total: exterior and interior wall, floor and roof areas, trusses, windows and doors by type and size, material weights and counts (steel, timber, concrete block) and the area of each wall layer. Quantities export to Excel, CSV and PDF. When the job is won, the same model is split into panels and framed in light gauge steel (studs, tracks, headers, joists, rafters and trusses, with their connections and roll-former tooling) or in timber (studs, plates, headers, sills, joists and rafters). There is no redrawing between the quote and production. The user sets shop rules in the project settings, such as maximum panel width, stud spacing and naming, and edits the model by clicking an element in the 3D view and describing the change in plain words. Production outputs include machine files for Howick and Tekla Pinnacle roll-formers, IFC (architecture, framing and panels), and a drawing set with a layout plan per level and a sheet per panel, in PDF or DXF. Stud gives quantities, not prices, and it does not run structural calculations or building-code checks: the design stays with the user's engineer.