How it works
From an inquiry to a quotable layout.
The workflow is built around one idea: answer the geometry question first, because every other answer depends on it.
Define the vehicle
Start with what the customer actually loads — car or trailer type, hatch and nozzle positions, plate dimensions, how accurately they can spot. This is the constraint that decides the project, so it goes in first rather than last.
Place the platform and pivot
Set the mounting position and height for the arm and the access structure around it. The guided wizard gives a sensible starting point by product type if you would rather not start from a blank scene.
Solve the reach
The solver returns the swept envelope, the usable hatch window inside it, and the clearance result against the vehicle plate. If it does not reach, you know now — and you can move the pivot and re-solve while the customer is still on the call.
Build the assembly
Add piping, gangway, stairs, platform and structural steel using snap connections. Joint rules refuse combinations that do not mate. Containment pans generate procedurally for the track length being covered.
Validate
Run access and fall-protection checks against the built geometry, and confirm clearance once more against the final arrangement rather than the initial sketch.
Export the package
PDF plus front, side and top views, and a bill of material counted off the model. That set goes into the quote as evidence, not as an illustration.
Where the time goes today. In most organisations steps one through three take days, because they require a drafter, a CAD seat and a queue. Collapsing them into a single conversation is the change that pays for the tool.
What you end up holding
Outputs that survive contact with a customer.
Reach result
The envelope, the reachable window, and whether it clears.
3D layout
The arrangement the customer saw and agreed to.
Drawing set
PDF with front, side and top orthographic views.
Bill of material
Counted off the assembly you actually built.
Requirements
What it takes to run it.
- A browser on a normal machine. No CAD licence, no install, no specialist workstation for the person viewing it.
- Your vehicle data. The car and trailer types your customers run. If you have them on a spec sheet, that is enough to start.
- Your product data, if you want your catalogue in it. Product types, standard assemblies and structural conventions can be represented rather than approximated.
- Someone who knows the application. The tool removes the CAD bottleneck, not the engineering judgement.
Walk through it on your own project.
Twenty minutes, screen shared. Bring a layout you have argued about and we will solve it live.
Sam Doyle · 247 Industrial Platform · Cary, NC