AI assistants
ChatGPT and Claude work in your open ScaffPilot: buildings from your drawings, scaffold and weather protection, FEM fixed until it passes. AI Engineer.
Free forever No credit card. No per-seat fees. No catch.
Scaffold design software that calculates every member.
Open the building's IFC model, design any scaffold or weather-protection roof in 3D, get the material list instantly and verify standards, ledgers and anchors with real FEM structural analysis to EN 12811-1 and EN 16508. In your browser, in minutes. Free. UK wind to BS EN 1991-1-4 with the UK National Annex, BS 5975 design packs and German approval (Zulassung) load values are included.
- Free plan, no time limit
- FEM in one click (Engineer)
- AI from your drawings (AI Engineer)
- BIM / IFC ready
- Web, Windows, macOS, Linux
Highest utilisation59 % N+M
Members checked1,677 ✓ 0 over 100 %
Material list, ready to quote1,405 parts · 11,023 kg
AI and FEM, side by side
The AI draws it. The FEM proves it.
AI · AI Engineer
See the AI at work
Drawings to a 3D scaffold in minutes
ChatGPT or Claude reads the client’s PDF drawings and builds the building, the facade scaffold and the weather-protection roof in ScaffPilot – then runs the FEM and fixes the scaffold until it passes. Every change is one undo step.
See the AI at work
FEM · Engineer
How the calculation works
Real finite-element analysis
Every standard, ledger, diagonal and anchor in a 3D frame model, every load case to EN 12811-1 / EN 16508, wind from every direction – and a PDF report you can hand over.
How the calculation works
Built-in catalogues for the systems you already own
- Layher
- PERI
- Altrad Plettac
- Scafom-rux
- MJ-Gerüst
- ULMA
- Hünnebeck
- Doka
- Proxa
- Talhu
- HAKI
- Cuplock
- Kwikstage
- MonZon
- US frame (feet & inches)
- Tube and fitting (EN 74)
- + steel tube & I-beams
Video tutorials · 6 parts
Learn ScaffPilot in eight short videos.
Recorded in the real app: a quick look, the basics, scaffolds built with the keyboard, weather protection, a building from PDF drawings and the map, and cloud files, teams and co-editing – about 25 minutes in all.
English narration, Finnish and Swedish subtitles (CC). All tutorials with chapters →
New in ScaffPilot
Model the whole site. Scaffold any shape.
Industrial plants and 94 ready building types, scaffolds that turn round balconies and bends, and weather-protection roofs that fit themselves onto your scaffolds.
Industrial plants
Tanks, silos, pipe racks, process columns, steel structures and crawler cranes, sized like the real ones – scaffold them with round and facade scaffolds, and export them with their own IFC classes.
94 building templates
Homes, offices, schools, churches, factories, farms and more in 18 groups, as they are usually built in Finland and Sweden – with wings, roofs, windows and doors. Plus 11 bridge types.
Scaffolds at keyboard speed
Shift+D adds bays, Shift+R turns them, Shift+L fits a wall’s length – take a scaffold all the way round a building with nothing but the keyboard.
Turned bays
Turn the next bays 5° at a time round balconies, bays and bends. The wedge-shaped gap is boarded with plywood, toeboards and guardrails – and they are in the material list.
A roof on two scaffolds
Pick two scaffolds across from each other and ScaffPilot fits the weather-protection roof between them – sections laid out over the overlap, with a short infill section in the middle where needed.
Roofs in any shape
Make one section shorter or longer, turn the roof section by section into an L or a curve, tilt it and move it – for the buildings that are not a simple box.
DESSA UNI Roof D78
The DESSA UNI Roof on 78 cm aluminium beams: 18° ridge and eaves beams, beams up to 6 m and DESSA’s own bracing – UNI frames, diagonals and horizontal braces – with DESSA part numbers and weights in the material list.
Kentledge, checked by FEM
Ballast weights or concrete blocks at the standards – or tied out with wire ropes – on any scaffold system. The FEM calculation checks every base plate for uplift and every scaffold for sliding, and tells you how much kentledge each support needs.
Edge protection on sloped roofs
The railing follows the roof under it – up the slopes and over the ridge – and the quotation request counts it along the slope.
Bridges
11 types – slab, beam, girder, truss, arch, timber, footbridge, cable-stayed, suspension and bascule – sized by length, deck and spans.
The whole site
Roads, parking rows, grass, gravel and asphalt, water and woods laid on the terrain, with street lights and EV chargers.
Site setup
Site huts stacked up to three storeys with galleries and stairs, containers, dumpsters, trash chutes, cranes and hoists.
Ask for a quotation
Send the project from the app to suppliers in the site’s country – for scaffolding, formwork or site equipment, and only to suppliers of it.
Formwork and site plans
Plan the formwork and the site. In the same project.
Next to the scaffolds: wall and slab formwork with a generated layout and material list, and the construction site plan with fences, zones and crane reach on a map or drawing. Both are in the Free edition.
Wall and slab formwork
Draw a wall line or pick a building’s walls, or draw a slab outline: ScaffPilot lays out panels, corners, ties, push-pull props, props and H20-type beams from a generic catalogue and counts them – PDF, CSV and IFC included. Indicative, with no concrete-pressure calculation.
Construction site plan
On a map or a drawing: site fences and hoardings with gates, storage, laydown and no-go zones with their areas, crane reach, edge protection and the 3D huts and containers – printed as a site-plan PDF with a legend and a north arrow.
Quotation requests now cover scaffolding, formwork and site equipment – each request goes only to suppliers of what it is for.
New · Cloud, teams & sharing
Work on the same plan. Together, live.
Save projects in the ScaffPilot cloud, invite your team and edit the same plan at the same time – then send it to the customer with one link.
Cloud files that save themselves.
- Cloud files – save a project in the ScaffPilot cloud next to your local files. It saves itself as you work and opens wherever you sign in.
- Teams (Engineer and up) – invite people by email as editors or viewers. Colleagues on Free work in the team’s files with the team’s storage and Engineer features.
- Live co-editing – several people in the same file at once. Every change shows up for everyone straight away, round avatars show who is in, and each person’s selection lights up in their own colour.
- Your undo is yours – Ctrl+Z undoes only your own changes, never a colleague’s.
Share one project – or send it to the customer.
- Invite to edit or view – share a single project by email with anyone, with or without a ScaffPilot account: they create a free account with the invited address. The email shows a picture of the plan.
- Send to customer – “Have a look at the scaffold plan – is it OK?” The customer signs in or creates a free account and sees the plan read-only, in review mode.
- Nothing to change, plenty to check – no editing tools, but the customer can turn and zoom the model, measure, and open the drawings and the material list.
Cloud storage
30 MB on Free, 300 MB on Engineer and AI Engineer and 500 MB per user on Enterprise. Team spaces have their own.
More when you need it
Extra blocks of 500 MB for 5 € a month each (excl. VAT), bought in the app. A team pays once, not per member.
Keep your own copies
The cloud keeps the latest version of each file – no version history or backup, and a deleted file is gone for good. Save a copy to your computer whenever you want one.
Local files too
Projects saved on your own computer work just as before – in the browser and in the desktop apps.
Why scaffolders switch
Your competitors quote in minutes.
Your competitors quote in minutes.
Now you can too – for free.
Scaffold planning should not mean hand-counted ledgers, a spreadsheet per job and two weeks waiting for a structural engineer.
The old way
- Hours of take-off per quote – counting standards, ledgers and decks by hand.
- Over-ordering to be safe, then hauling surplus gear back to the yard.
- Weeks waiting for an external consultant to check loads and anchors.
- Expensive licences priced per seat, with calculations locked behind the top tier.
With ScaffPilot
- Wrap a whole building in one click – bays, lifts, decks, rails, diagonals and anchors generated for you.
- Design on the BIM model – open the IFC, even 100+ MB, and scaffold the real building.
- Exact material list with catalogue numbers and weights, straight from the 3D model.
- FEM in seconds: every member checked, anchor forces and base reactions ready for the engineer.
- Free forever for design. Colleagues and customers you invite join with a free account.
The wow feature · ScaffPilot Engineer
Real finite-element analysis.
Real finite-element analysis.
Not a rule of thumb.
Press Calculate and ScaffPilot builds a full 3D frame model of your scaffold – every standard, ledger, diagonal, deck and anchor – and solves all load cases right in your browser.
- EN 12811-1
- EN 16508
- BS EN 1991-1-4 UK NA
- BS 5975
- DIBt Zulassung
- EN 1991-1-4 wind
- EN 1993-1-1 steel
- EN 1999-1-1 aluminium
- Every load case, automatically – service classes 1–6, wind from every direction in and out of service, snow and self weight on scaffolds and weather-protection roofs, combined with EN 16508 partial factors. UK wind to BS EN 1991-1-4 with the UK National Annex, BS 5975 design packs and German approval (Zulassung) load values are included.
- Second-order, semi-rigid joints – P-Δ effects, joint stiffness, tension-only members and buckling lengths, member by member.
- Anchor forces & base reactions – the numbers your engineer and your site crew actually need.
- A report you can hand over – FEM PDF report with loads, combinations, the governing case and every member's utilisation.
Members are coloured by utilisation (section, buckling, N+M). Click the legend to find the critical ones.
Runs in your browser
The ScaffPilot FEM solver runs in parallel web workers on your own machine. Your projects never wait in a cloud queue.
Verified numbers
The ScaffPilot FEM solver is regression-tested against independent reference results and reproduces them exactly on the test models.
Weather-protection roofs included
Roof trusses, sheets and supports are calculated together with the scaffold that carries them – snow, wind and uplift included.
BIM integration · IFC import & export
Open the architect's IFC model.
Open the architect's IFC model.
Scaffold it directly.
Drop an IFC file and design the scaffold against the real building – slabs, columns, facades and roofs – then hand an IFC4 model of the scaffolds and weather-protection roofs back to the BIM coordinator.
168 MBIFC model opened in the browser
89,000building elements in one model
3 Mtriangles, drawn smoothly
8.5 sfrom file drop to model on screen
Built for the big models other tools choke on.
- Very large files – the IFC is parsed in a background worker and drawn as a few merged meshes, so 100+ MB structural and architectural models stay fluid.
- Site › building › storey › type › element – browse the model tree, hide storeys, isolate elements and frame anything.
- Scaffold stands on the model – base jacks and fillers fit automatically to IFC slabs, roofs and stairs.
- Survey coordinates kept – models placed by their real-world coordinates line up with each other and with your scaffold.
- IFC4 export back to BIM – every scaffold and weather-protection roof part with stable GlobalIds, part numbers as Tag and property sets, ready for clash detection in Solibri, Navisworks, Tekla or Revit.
Weather-protection roofs
Weather protection, designed, calculated and exported.
Put a gable or shed roof over the building in one click. ScaffPilot sizes the trusses to the span, places the sheets and support tubes and builds the scaffolds that carry the roof – all in the same model.
- Layher KH, Layher XL, Proxa, Proxa Heavy, DESSA UNI Roof D78 and MonZon PROTECT IT roof systems – trusses, ridge beams, end pieces, bracing and roof sheets from the catalogue.
- In the material list – every roof part with catalogue number and weight, next to the scaffold parts.
- In the FEM calculation (Engineer) – snow on the roof and wind in and out of service, uplift included, carried down through the scaffold to the anchors and base jacks.
- In the BIM model – roof beams, bracing and sheets export to IFC4 together with the scaffold, ready for coordination.
One calculation for the roof and the scaffold.
Roof supports load the scaffold exactly where they stand. ScaffPilot warns about supports between standards, a roof moved along its scaffold and a roof with no support found – before anything is built.
Weather protection in the FEM
0 €for the Free edition – forever
1-clickto scaffold a whole building
1,677members checked in the example above
3languages: English, Finnish, Swedish
How it works
From address to verified quote in three steps.
Bring in the building
Find the address on the map and import the footprint from OpenStreetMap, open an IFC model, calibrate a PDF drawing as an underlay, or pick one of 94 building templates.
Drag out the scaffold
Drag bays along a wall, wrap the whole building in one click, or build bay by bay with the keyboard. Corners, turned bays, stairs, consoles and loading bays snap into place.
Calculate & quote
Get the material list, area and weight, run the FEM, and export PDF drawings, CSV or the scaffold and roof as an IFC model for the client and the crew.
Material list
Order exactly what the job needs.
Every part in the model lands in the material list with its catalogue number, quantity and weight – updated live as you edit.
- Scaffold area, volume and total weight for pricing and transport.
- Part numbering for drawings and the yard.
- CSV export to your ERP, pick list or quotation template.
Everything in the Free edition
A complete scaffold design studio.
Facades, towers, cisterns, roofs and cantilevers – the hard jobs are the ones ScaffPilot was built for.
One-click building wrap
Point at a building and ScaffPilot closes a scaffold around it – runs, corner bays and offsets solved for you.
Weather-protection roofs
Gable and shed roofs with trusses, sheets and support tubes, sized to the span and carried by your scaffolds – in the material list, the FEM and the IFC export.
Round & cistern scaffolds
Rings that close exactly, with tapered mid bays – tanks, silos and chimneys without the guesswork.
Drawings to PDF
Plans, sections and elevations with dimensions, hidden lines and a title block – print-ready for site and permit.
Cantilevers & consoles
Brackets, cantilevered bays, bridging ledgers and loading bays that follow their host when you edit it.
Stairs, lifts & decks
Stair towers, platform intervals, deck levels and guardrails set per run, per bay or per lift.
Map import
Building footprints and heights from OpenStreetMap, no API key.
IFC import
IFC2x3 and IFC4 building models in the browser – even the very large ones.
PDF underlays
Drop a drawing, calibrate two points, build on top of it.
Terrain & roofs
Base jacks and fillers fitted to sloping ground and roofs.
Desktop apps
Windows, macOS and Linux with automatic updates.
BIM export
Scaffolds and weather-protection roofs out as IFC4 models for Revit, Tekla, Solibri and Navisworks.
3 languages
UI and reports in English, Finnish and Swedish.
Undo everything
Full undo/redo and automatic recovery copies.
Formwork
Wall and slab formwork with a generated layout and material list.
Site plans
Fences, gates, zones and crane reach on a map, printed with a legend.
Codes and paperwork
UK and German paperwork. Signed, tagged and quoted.
More scaffold systems, the documents each country expects, and the work that follows the design – in the same project.
Four more systems
Cuplock, Kwikstage, HAKI and US frame, with a units setting for metric or imperial – feet and inches.
UK wind and BS 5975
BS EN 1991-1-4 with the UK National Annex and site factor, standard-configuration compliance reports and a BS 5975 design pack.
German documents
Approval (Zulassung) load values per system and an assembly plan – the Aufbau- und Verwendungsplan – from the 3D design.
Signed design reports
The designer signs, a checker countersigns, the version is locked and the audit trail shows who did what. Enterprise.
QR tags and inspections
Scaffold tags with green or red status, and inspections and handovers on a phone. Enterprise.
Priced quotations
Rent, erection and dismantling priced from the design’s material list, with the quotation document. Enterprise.
Editions
Free for design. Add engineering and the full business when you need them.
One account, one licence. Create your free account in seconds – and when you need FEM or the full business system, press Upgrade plan and pay by card – or, for a business, choose Pay by invoice for a yearly plan: it switches on at once.
ScaffPilot Free
For scaffolders who design, quote and order.
0 € forever
No credit card, no time limit.
- 3D scaffolds & weather-protection roofs
- Material lists, weights & CSV
- Drawings to PDF, IFC import, IFC4 export
- Map, PDF & IFC building import
- Formwork & site plans
- 30 MB cloud storage
- Web + desktop apps
- FEM structural calculation
- AI assistants
ScaffPilot Engineer
For technical leads who must prove the scaffold stands.
8 € / user / month
Excl. VAT, paid yearly (96 €) – or 10 € paid monthly. Upgrade with one click from the app.
- Everything in Free
- FEM calculation to EN 12811-1 / EN 16508; UK wind (National Annex), BS 5975 and approval (Zulassung) values
- Wind EN 1991-1-4, snow, service classes
- Anchor forces & base reactions
- FEM of scaffolds and weather-protection roofs, PDF report
- AI assistants – in AI Engineer
- UK compliance report & BS 5975 pack, German approval values & assembly plan
- Teams & live co-editing
- 300 MB cloud storage
Most popular · AI + FEM
ScaffPilot AI Engineer
For technical leads who want the AI to draw it and the FEM to prove it.
14 € / user / month
Excl. VAT, paid yearly (168 €) – or 17 € paid monthly. Upgrade from Engineer with one click.
- Everything in Engineer
- AI assistants – ChatGPT and Claude model, scaffold and FEM-check for you
- ScaffPilot AI skill – drawings to a project file, no connector needed
- The AI runs the FEM and fixes the scaffold until it passes
- Every AI change is one undo step, with its reason
- AI history, Stop button, revoke in one click
ScaffPilot Enterprise
For scaffolding companies that run the whole business in ScaffPilot.
19 € / user / month
Excl. VAT, paid yearly (228 €) – or 24 € paid monthly. Multi-company, multi business unit.
- Everything in AI Engineer
- 500 MB cloud storage per user and per team
- Company-wide user management & licence overview
- Projects & quotations / offers
- Warehouse & rental stock management
- Multi-company & business units
- Accounting, invoicing & reporting
- Signed design reports with checker countersignature
- QR scaffold tags, inspections & handovers on mobile
- Priced quotations from the material list
- All Enterprise features
For suppliers
ScaffPilot Supplier
For suppliers of scaffolding, formwork or site equipment – material and services: quotation requests from ScaffPilot users for the products your company supplies.
49 € / user / month
Excl. VAT. Includes 10 quotation requests a month – every 10 more +5 € / month.
Get Supplier- Everything in Engineer
- Quotation requests for scaffolding, formwork or site equipment in your countries – only for the products you supply
- See who is asking – name, company and contact details – and reply directly
- The full project: 3D scaffold, material list, drawings and IFC models
- 10 requests a month per user; 10 more for 5 € / month
- Without the licence, requests arrive without who is asking
Engineer, AI Engineer and Enterprise are paid by card, monthly or yearly – or yearly by invoice for businesses: Engineer 10 € a month or 96 € a year, AI Engineer 17 € a month or 168 € a year, Enterprise 24 € a month or 228 € a year (per user) – paying yearly saves at least two months.
ScaffPilot Supplier is paid by card for a year at a time too – 588 € per user per year with 10 quotation requests a month; every 10 more requests a month add 60 € a year.
More cloud storage: blocks of 500 MB for 5 € a month each (per storage account – a team pays once), excl. VAT, bought in the app and paid by card for a year at a time.
Prices are excl. VAT. VAT is added on the payment page for your country: Finnish customers pay 25.5 %, private customers in other EU countries their own country’s VAT, businesses in other EU countries with a valid VAT ID pay no VAT (reverse charge), and customers outside the EU pay no Finnish VAT.
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| What you need | ScaffPilot | Typical scaffold software |
|---|---|---|
| Price to start | 0 € – free forever | Demo call, then a custom quote |
| Structural calculation | FEM built in – one-click upgrade | Top tier only, or an outside consultant |
| AI from your drawings | ChatGPT and Claude build the model and fix it until the FEM passes (AI Engineer) | Modelled by hand from the drawings |
| Time to first design | Minutes – sign up and draw | Days to weeks of onboarding |
| BIM / IFC | Large IFC models in the browser, IFC4 export of scaffolds and roofs | Often needs Revit, Tekla or SketchUp |
| Platform | Browser + Windows, macOS, Linux | One platform or a CAD plug-in |
| CAD skills needed | None | Often SketchUp, Revit or Tekla |
| Working together | Cloud files, live co-editing, teams (Engineer) and read-only review for customers | Files emailed back and forth |
| Business lifecycle | Projects, offers, warehouse (Enterprise) | Separate products and integrations |
| After the design | Signed design reports, QR scaffold tags, inspections and priced quotations (Enterprise) | Usually separate tools |
FAQ
Questions scaffolders ask us
Is ScaffPilot really free?
Yes. ScaffPilot Free includes every design feature – 3D modelling, material lists, drawings, IFC and map import, desktop apps – with no time limit and no credit card. Only FEM structural calculation is reserved for the Engineer edition, which you can request from inside the app with one click.
Which standards does the FEM calculation follow?
Service loads follow the EN 12811-1 load classes 1–6, load combinations and partial factors follow EN 16508, and wind follows EN 1991-1-4 with terrain categories 0–IV. Members are checked for section resistance, buckling and combined axial force and bending (N+M) to EN 1993-1-1 (steel) and EN 1999-1-1 (aluminium). UK wind to BS EN 1991-1-4 with the UK National Annex, BS 5975 design packs and German approval (Zulassung) load values are included. Read how the calculation works.
Which scaffold systems are supported?
Built-in catalogues for Layher Allround and Blitz, PERI UP Flex and UP Easy, Altrad Plettac METRIX and SL, Scafom-rux RINGSCAFF and SUPER, MJ COMBI and UNI 70, ULMA BRIO and DORPA, Hünnebeck MODEX and BOSTA 70, Doka Ringlock, Proxa and Talhu Hana – modular and frame systems, each designed in its own bay lengths and widths – and for tube and fitting (EN 74 couplers, 48.3 mm tube in stock lengths, 225 mm scaffold boards). Article numbers and weights are the manufacturers' where they publish them; anything a catalogue does not list is flagged in the material list. Plus steel tubes, wire and IPE/HEA/HEB I-beams for special structures.
Also Cuplock, Kwikstage, HAKI and US frame, with a units setting that shows lengths in metric or in feet and inches.
Can ScaffPilot open large IFC / BIM models?
Yes – that is one of its strengths. IFC files are read in a background worker and drawn as merged meshes; a 168 MB structural model with 89,000 elements and 3 million triangles opens in about 8.5 seconds in the browser. You can browse storeys and element types, scaffold directly on slabs and roofs, and export the scaffold as IFC4. More on BIM & IFC.
Do I need to install anything?
No. ScaffPilot runs in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. If you prefer a desktop app, download it for Windows, macOS or Linux – it signs in with the same account and updates itself.
Is ScaffPilot an alternative to Scaffcalc, ScaffPlan or LayPLAN?
Yes. ScaffPilot does the same core job – 3D scaffold design, material lists, structural load calculation and quotation – but you can use it for free today, without a demo call. FEM is built into the Engineer edition, and the Enterprise edition runs projects, offers and the warehouse in the same system.
Does ScaffPilot replace the responsible engineer?
No – it makes them fast. ScaffPilot does the modelling and the calculation and produces a documented FEM report, so the responsible designer can review and sign off in minutes instead of days. Where national rules require a qualified engineer's approval, that still applies.
Can several people work on the same plan?
Yes. Save the project in the ScaffPilot cloud and invite people – to a team (Engineer and up) or by email to just this one project. Everyone in the file sees the others’ changes straight away, with their avatars and selections, and undo only undoes your own changes. Colleagues on Free can be invited too.
Can I show the plan to my customer?
Yes. Send to customer emails a link with a picture of the plan: “Have a look at the scaffold plan – is it OK?” The customer creates a free account or signs in, and the plan opens read-only in review mode: they can look round, measure and check the drawings and the material list, but not change anything.
Where is my data stored?
Projects you save on your computer stay there. Cloud files are stored on ScaffPilot’s servers and open wherever you sign in. The cloud keeps only the latest version of each file, so keep your own copies of important plans – Save a copy to this computer writes a normal ScaffPilot file. The FEM solver runs locally in your browser or desktop app.
How does licensing work?
One user account is one licence. Sign in once in the browser or the desktop app and you are ready to go; the desktop app checks the licence now and then, so keep it online at least occasionally.
Does ScaffPilot work for UK sites?
Yes. The FEM calculation can take wind to BS EN 1991-1-4 with the UK National Annex and a site factor from altitude, distance to the sea, town or country terrain and orography. ScaffPilot also makes standard-configuration compliance reports and a BS 5975 temporary works design pack with the design brief, check category, design check certificate, drawings, calculations and TWC / TWS sign-off.
Can ScaffPilot make German scaffold documents?
Yes. For systems with a German approval it shows the approval (Zulassung) load values with their source, and it prints an assembly plan – the Aufbau- und Verwendungsplan – for the scaffold you designed.
What does ScaffPilot Enterprise add after the design?
Signed design reports – the designer signs, a checker countersigns, versions are locked and there is an audit trail – QR scaffold tags with inspections and handovers on a phone, and priced quotations for rent, erection and dismantling from the design’s material list.
Free forever · No credit card
Your next scaffold, designed and verified before lunch.
Create your account in 30 seconds and start designing in the browser. Need FEM? Upgrade with one click when you are ready.