ScaffPilot / AI scaffold design
AI assistants · ScaffPilot AI EngineerGive ChatGPT or Claude your drawings and say what you need. The AI builds the 3D model, designs the scaffold and the weather protection, and keeps fixing the scaffold until the FEM calculation passes – while you watch it happen in ScaffPilot.
In short: ScaffPilot connects to ChatGPT and Claude as a connector. Your AI reads the drawings and uses ScaffPilot’s own tools in your open editor – buildings, scaffolds, weather-protection roofs, the FEM calculation and its report – while you watch, undo or stop it.
Give your AI the plans, elevations, sections and site plan and say: make a 3D building of these. It reads the dimension lines and level marks and creates every building in your open ScaffPilot – several buildings from one drawing set, placed as the site plan shows.
Ask for a facade scaffold and a weather-protection roof. The AI uses your scaffold system and ScaffPilot’s own layout tools: corner bays, stair towers, and a roof fitted on the scaffold with the scaffold raised to carry it.
The AI runs the FEM calculation, reads which members, ties and supports fail and why, and fixes the scaffold – wall ties, diagonals, rakers and buttresses, kentledge, a heavier roof – one change at a time until every check passes.
The FEM report downloads to your computer and the AI explains it: the governing load cases, utilisations, tie forces and support reactions, and what it changed to make the scaffold pass.
Claude Code: create an access key in ScaffPilot and paste the ready command – one line in the terminal.
Short videos recorded in the real ScaffPilot with a real ChatGPT and Claude – the chat and ScaffPilot side by side.
Part 1 of 6
Where to find the connector address in ScaffPilot, adding ScaffPilot to ChatGPT as a custom MCP plugin and to Claude as a custom connector – both sign in to your ScaffPilot account – an access key for Claude Code, and a first question.
English narration. Finnish and Swedish subtitles – switch them on with the player’s CC button.
Part 2 of 6
Claude gets an architect’s elevation sheet as a PDF – a row house of five units stepping up a slope – reads the scale and the level marks, and builds the five units in ScaffPilot, each on its own ground level. Then it checks its work with pictures of the model.
English narration. Finnish and Swedish subtitles – switch them on with the player’s CC button.
Part 3 of 6
ChatGPT models a detached house from one sentence, wraps it in a facade scaffold tied to the walls with a stair tower, and fits a temporary weather-protection roof on the scaffold so the roofers can work in the rain.
English narration. Finnish and Swedish subtitles – switch them on with the player’s CC button.
Part 4 of 6
Claude runs ScaffPilot’s FEM calculation on that scaffold. The roof beams fail in wind and the wind lifts base plates, so Claude reads the results, changes the roof system and adds kentledge – trying, undoing and recalculating – until every check passes at 46 %.
English narration. Finnish and Swedish subtitles – switch them on with the player’s CC button.
Part 5 of 6
ChatGPT has ScaffPilot calculate the passing scaffold and make the FEM report – the PDF downloads in the browser – and explains it: the governing members and how close they are to their limits, the loads at the supports, the ballast and what the site supervisor should check before use.
English narration. Finnish and Swedish subtitles – switch them on with the player’s CC button.
Part 6 of 6
The ScaffPilot skill teaches Claude or ChatGPT to write ScaffPilot project files – no connector needed. Download it from the account menu and add it to Claude. Claude gets a client’s elevation sheet of a row house, reads the scale and the level marks and writes one file with the building, the facade scaffold and the weather-protection roof. Dropped onto ScaffPilot, the file builds it all from the scaffold system you choose, ready to check, adjust and calculate.
English narration. Finnish and Swedish subtitles – switch them on with the player’s CC button.
The AI works in your open ScaffPilot window. Put the chat and ScaffPilot side by side and see every building, bay and roof appear.
Every change the AI makes is a named step in the undo history, with the reason it gave. Take back any of them.
The AI bar in ScaffPilot has a Stop button: the AI cannot change anything until you resume.
Everything the AI did, when and why, is listed under AI assistants – and you revoke a connection with one click.
The AI prepares; a competent person approves. Check the 3D model against the drawings and review the FEM report before the scaffold is erected.
Related: Scaffold FEM calculation · Tutorials · Pricing
ChatGPT and Claude (on the web and in their desktop apps) connect by signing in to ScaffPilot. Claude Code and other tools that take an access key connect with a key you create in ScaffPilot. ScaffPilot is an MCP server, so other assistants that support MCP connectors work too.
No. You give the drawings to your AI; it reads them and sends ScaffPilot only the dimensions it builds from. Check the 3D model against the drawings before you rely on it.
ScaffPilot AI Engineer (14 € per user per month excl. VAT) or Enterprise – the plans with the AI assistants and the FEM calculation. Your AI assistant needs a plan of its own that allows custom connectors.
You are. The AI prepares the model and runs the calculation with ScaffPilot’s tools, but a competent person checks the geometry, the loads and the FEM report and approves the design under the site’s procedures.
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