Avontus Designer 2023 v6.5
Still drawing scaffolds by hand and manually counting equipment? Then it’s time to discover Avontus Designer, the industry’s leading scaffold design software. With built-in tutorial videos and a world-class support team behind you, you’ll be up and running in just a few hours, saving not just time but also valuable resources with every new design.
Create professional scaffold designs in minutes with our intuitive design software, built for your scaffolding design needs. Impress clients, win more bids, and leave a lasting impression.
- Intuitive drag-and-drop functionality for quick scaffold layout.
- Generate accurate 3D models and designs with interactive flythroughs.
- Showcase your designs in AR/VR using the free Avontus Viewer app for impactful client presentation.
Prevent cost overruns and reduce drawing and material counting time by up to 90%. Generate precise bills of materials for accurate project costing, ensuring you always stay on budget.
- Built-in library of customizable scaffold components for faster estimation.
- Generate instant and accurate bills of materials (BOM) with a single click.
Utilize built-in ring/kwikstage/cup system scaffolding catalogs or easily import specific catalogs from over 40 manufacturers. Import your plans and export Avontus Designer drawings.
- Works seamlessly with all major system scaffolding manufacturers.
- Integrates with Quantify inventory management software for optimal project delivery from bid to completion.
- Import 2D/3D plans in various formats, including IFC, PDF, and AutoCAD and export 2D/3D models, as .dwg, PDF, and more.
As new developments in technology become available, the decision to incorporate these into your scaffolding business can be a difficult choice. After all, no one likes change! There is rarely an opportunity to see real incremental advantages to adopting the ‘new’ technology. And yet, every now and again, something comes along that will turn your eye. If a still picture speaks a thousand words, an interactive experience offers a million!
Visualizing a scaffold at the time of an estimate and then again in a quote has often been a rough notebook sketch, a few careful bullet points and sentences to define a scope. Often leading to lack of clarity and then costly scope creep, ending in frustration both for you and your customers.
When a project was of a significant size it may have been worthy to have a formal drawing produced which was a time consuming and costly endeavor for a project that you might not even win. These drawings have typically been a 2D plan and elevation, and over time (if you were lucky) might have an isolated view or two to help express the scope of work. While this is a step up from the back of a napkin, it is still open to interpretation and requires a level of skill from your team and the customer to understand the proposed solution.
Many companies overtime brought design in house to overcome the delay in drawing production and to avoid being reliant on outsourced services. While this was somewhat effective initially, with technology advancements 3D began to be utilized which required further upskilling on behalf of the designer. Not to mention, further investment in new hardware to operate the resource draining software and training for the user. This limits the broad employment of this technology which creates information silos in many organizations. Effectively creating a delay and an internal bottleneck, harming your business. The drawings that are produced using a 3D solution while more descriptive are still a static view which does not allow the viewer to consume the complete project. Again, leading to potential for misinterpretation of the project.
