STACKED
AI COPILOT · FOR STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS
Stacked is an AI copilot built for structural engineers. It turns marked-up PDFs into fully parameterised 3D structural models, plugs into your already-trusted software, runs the load paths, designs to your local standards, and writes the reports - so your week goes on engineering judgement, not modelling and busywork.
THE WORKFLOW
Mark up the drawings the way you already do. From there, take a fast conceptual pass straight on the plans, or carry the same model through ETABS to a code-compliant design with the reports written. It is one model either way, so nothing gets drawn twice.
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For experimenting with designs. Approximate the demands in your structural elements under typical seismic and gravity loading scenarios, in minutes, straight on the plans, no need for an FEM license.
Annotate the plan set in Bluebeam with your own colours and drop the PDF into Stacked, which reads the annotations directly. Set the scale and storey elevations once per page, then label objects by colour: one label covers every match, and your firm's object library makes it instant.
Gravity and lateral load paths on Stacked's own solver, no external FEM needed: tributary areas, base reactions, storey shears, deformations and frame/wall demands, colour-mapped straight onto your plans with click-through to any member's numbers and a report at the end.
Concept demands in minutes · Stacked's own solver
Design locked in? The same model carries straight through.
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For designs that are locked in. Generate the full 3D model, push it to an FEM solver everyone trusts, and design to local standards with the iteration handled for you.
Model & analyse
One click builds the model: storeys, walls, slabs, beams, columns and openings snapped into a clean, parameterised 3D model you can orbit and inspect in the model explorer.
One click builds the complete ETABS model from your own template, so your load cases and combos are applied automatically. Wall cracking modifiers are calculated from aspect ratios in accordance with the design standards and applied in the ETABS model, and the results import straight back into Stacked for design.
Design to local standards
Set your design parameters and the reinforcement you'd accept; Stacked designs every pier and spandrel to local standards (axial, shear, biaxial bending with axial interaction, stability and buckling, effective flanges) and picks the optimal layout.
Convert any floor into a strut-and-tie model with wall and column forces applied as point loads matched to the building analysis, not spring supports, so the diaphragm carries force like the real structure. Push to ETABS or SpaceGass for analysis.
Sizes the tension reinforcement in every tie (base mat plus drag bars where needed), iterates layouts to optimise, and checks strut and nodal capacities to local design standards.
Modelled, analysed, designed · reports written
BOOK A DEMO
Book a demo and we'll walk your team through the platform on a real job, then set you up with a trial period. Or just send us a question.