Features - What’s Included

FabSystems delivers a simple, user-friendly experience at lightning speed. In today’s competitive construction market, your fab or erection shop needs every edge. Nothing else matches FabSystems for speed, accuracy, or completeness.

Rapid Initial Estimate

 

Extensive database

Using your takeoff method and Fabsystems simple interface produce a 150 ton estimate in 2-3 hours. Repeatable. Accurate.

FabSystems accesses an extensive database that has been in development and use for 10+ years. Every item commonly encountered over many years of operating is included in the system. The Material Definition is unlike anything else offered today…It’s all there. If there is a unique item you need to add it can be completed in less than a minute with the included tool. In addition to an extensive library of columns, beams, and the other commonly encountered items we include:

  • Angles

  • Bracing

  • Roof Openings

  • Stairs

  • Other miscellaneous items

Point and Click Interface

Data is entered into FabSystems using pulldown menus, greatly increasing the speed of estimate population. The only typing is size and quantity when entering data.

Auto-Calculation

FabSystems formulas used to calculate weight, time, paint, and cost are proven, having been in use for over 10 years and thousands of estimates. They are accurate and complete. You won’t ever fall short and underestimate paint or labor!

Engineered Connections

When entering a beam for example, the user completes the pulldown data entry, adds the size and quantity, and the system immediately calculates and populates every item, cost, and task related to that entry to AISC standards. No other steel fabrication software comes close to the speed and simplicity of FabSystems.

.KSS to Immediate Estimate

Upload a .kss output file from SDS2 or Tekla and Fabsystems can automatically and immediately produce a complete estimate. This is a new capability and no other estimating program can do this.

Material Management

Our goal was to build the perfect estimating program, but we’ve also included a very effective Material Management system in FabSystems. Upload a KISS file to immediately produce:

  • Bill of Materials with mark numbers

  • Beam Cut List

  • Inventory Control

  • Shipping Documents and Tracking

  • Paper or Digital Options