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Automation at your command

The best detailing solution for your steel projects.

SDS2’s powerful 3D automation can more than double your steel detailing productivity over less automated solutions, giving you the capacity to take on more projects. Detailers who switch to SDS2 report 2x faster detailing times within just a few projects. 

  • Connections are designed as you model with 360 degree real-world intelligence
  • Work together, wherever you are with live multiuser modeling
  • Accelerate your modeling time and stay connected to the BIM pipeline

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Work faster with fewer errors

No other steel detailing software can match, and it helps you get the job done faster and more accurately. 

Flexible licensing options

With SDS2, you can get to choose how to manage your license, with perpetual or subscription licensing available. 

Dedicated Training & Support

Unlimited Training & Designated Customer Support Representatives

Automate your most time-consuming tasks.

SDS2 Detailing offers the highest level of automation available in 3D steel detailing. With unparalleled connection design intelligence and high-quality drawing production, SDS2 provides innovative solutions proven to increase profitability and shorten project timelines.

 

Work faster with fewer errors.

SDS2 is built with real-world intelligence, with automated design features that account for not only structural integrity and constructability, but also erectability, so you know your designs will pass with the fabricator, erector, and other stakeholders. It's a next-level reality check that no other steel detailing software can match, and it helps you get the job done faster and more accurately. 

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Top automated features in SDS2

  • Connections designed as you model
  • Erectability checks and adjustments
  • Piecemarking
  • Shop drawings
  • Customizable detailing templates
  • Bill of material
  • CNC file generation

Deliver what matters to fabricators.

Whether you work for a shop or subcontract, SDS2's fabrication-optimized design options and integrations will help you meet increasingly tight deadlines and adapt to trends in automated machining and digitalization. 

  • Deliver CNC data compatible with cutting edge equipment.
  • Control your automation with fabricator preferences.
  • Piecemarks are automatically applied and updated as you model.
  • Integrate with BIM software for collaboration along the project pipeline.
The snapping feature was a great tool to add. It will be very easy to move the material without clashing to another one.
Averell Marte
AIC Steel
Load Planning is now fully incorporated in Crystal Steel. Besides being used in the shop for faster truck loading, we are also using it for Estimodeling and Production planning purposes. The improvements made are all useful. Thank you for finding ways to make truck loading easier.  
Nick Marinduque
Crystal Steel
SDS2 Load Planning has been very helpful in planning and sequencing loads. The biggest help has been the bundling of angles iron parts. I am hoping to get our forklift operator trained on it so he can start building the loads virtually.
Kody Fox
Pepper Tank
We use SDS2 Load Planning 90+% on every project. The 10% exception is for some smaller projects without IFC models. We have several projects that have upwards of 50+ loads all planned with load maps etc. We just load as they are done and shoot our barcodes. 
Justin Taylor
Garrison Steel
"SDS2 is hands down the best software available. SDS2 gets the job done quick, fast, and accurate which leads to increased productivity and profitability."
Hal Cartee
Cartee-Berry & Associates