# ScaffPilot

> ScaffPilot is free scaffold and weather-protection roof design software with BIM/IFC integration (import and IFC4 export) and FEM structural calculation. It runs in the browser and as desktop apps for Windows, macOS and Linux. The Free edition (all design features) is free forever; ScaffPilot Engineer (8 € per user per month, excl. VAT) adds finite-element (FEM) scaffold calculation; ScaffPilot Enterprise (19 € per user per month, excl. VAT) adds the full scaffolding business lifecycle (projects, quotations, warehouse, multi-company). ScaffPilot Supplier (49 € per user per month, excl. VAT, 10 quotation requests a month included, every 10 more +5 € per month) is for suppliers of scaffolding material and of rent, erection and dismantling services: everything in Engineer plus quotation requests from ScaffPilot users that show who is asking.

Key facts:
- 3D scaffold design: facade runs, one-click building wrap, corners, stair towers, consoles, cantilevers, loading bays, round/cistern scaffolds, steel I-beams.
- Weather-protection roofs: gable and shed roofs (Layher KH, Layher XL, Proxa, Proxa Heavy) over a building in one click, trusses sized to the span, carried by the scaffolds; included in the material list, the FEM calculation (snow, wind in and out of service, uplift) and the IFC export.
- Site and buildings: 94 building templates in 18 groups (as usually built in Finland and Sweden, with wings, roofs, windows and doors), 11 bridge types, industrial plant models (tanks, silos, pipe racks, process columns, steel structures, crawler cranes; exported with their own IFC classes), site surfaces (roads, parking, grass/gravel/asphalt areas, water, woods), street lights, EV chargers, stacked site huts with stairs, containers, dumpsters, cranes and hoists; buildings from OpenStreetMap, PDF drawings or IFC.
- Scaffolding by keyboard: Shift+D adds bays, Shift+R / Shift+Alt+R turn bays (5° steps round balconies and bends, the wedge-shaped gaps boarded with plywood, toeboards and guardrails in the material list), Shift+L fits a wall's length. Weather-protection roofs can be fitted onto two scaffolds across from each other and turned section by section into L shapes and curves.
- Built-in catalogues: Layher Allround, Proxa, Doka Ringlock, Talhu Hana (catalogue numbers, weights, structural properties).
- Material list with catalogue numbers, quantities, weights, scaffold area; CSV export; PDF plans, sections and elevations.
- BIM: imports IFC2x3/IFC4 building models in a background worker, including very large files (a 168 MB model with 89,000 elements and 3 million triangles opened in about 8.5 seconds in the browser); scaffold base jacks fit to IFC slabs, roofs and stairs; exports scaffolds and weather-protection roofs as IFC4 BIM models with stable GlobalIds, part numbers as Tag and property sets (roof beams as IfcBeam/IfcMember, roof sheets as roofing coverings).
- FEM (Engineer edition): 3D frame model of every member; EN 12811-1 service load classes 1–6, EN 1991-1-4 wind (terrain categories 0–IV), snow, self weight; EN 16508 load combinations and partial factors; second-order P-Δ analysis, semi-rigid joints, tension-only members; section, buckling and N+M checks (EN 1993-1-1 steel, EN 1999-1-1 aluminium); anchor forces and base reactions; weather-protection roofs calculated together with the scaffolds that carry them; FEM PDF report. The ScaffPilot FEM solver runs locally in the browser and is regression-tested against independent reference results.
- Licensing: one user account = one personal licence (no shared logins; at most two devices signed in at a time; Enterprise is the team plan with a licence for every user). Free-edition outputs say "ScaffPilot Free version" and every file records the edition and version it was made with; a project saved with Free keeps Free's limits in another user's paid edition. Sign up free at https://scaffpilot.com/signup; upgrade to Engineer or Enterprise with the Upgrade plan button in the app. Paid editions are invoiced yearly in advance (Engineer 96 €, Enterprise 228 €, Supplier 588 € per user per year, excl. VAT). Finnish customers pay Finnish VAT 25.5 %; businesses in other EU countries with a valid VAT ID are invoiced without VAT (reverse charge); customers outside the EU are invoiced without Finnish VAT.
- Quotation requests: a ScaffPilot user asks for a quotation (rent, erection and dismantling, or material) straight from the scaffold design; it goes to every listed supplier in the site's country that offers what is asked. Suppliers with ScaffPilot Supplier see who is asking and the full project; without it (or over the monthly limit) the request arrives without who is asking. Suppliers who want to be listed: info@scaffpilot.com.
- Languages: the app and this site are in English, Finnish (https://scaffpilot.com/fi/) and Swedish (https://scaffpilot.com/sv/). Contact: info@scaffpilot.com

## Pages

- [Home](https://scaffpilot.com/): free scaffold design software with FEM and BIM – overview, editions, comparison, FAQ
- [Scaffold FEM calculation](https://scaffpilot.com/scaffold-fem-calculation): how the structural analysis works, standards, loads, checks, results
- [BIM & IFC](https://scaffpilot.com/scaffold-bim-ifc): designing scaffolds on large IFC building models, IFC4 export
- [Pricing](https://scaffpilot.com/pricing): Free (0 €), Engineer (8 €/user/month), Enterprise (19 €/user/month) and Supplier (49 €/user/month) compared; prices excl. VAT
- [Download](https://scaffpilot.com/download): desktop apps for Windows, macOS and Linux
- [Tutorials](https://scaffpilot.com/tutorials): a five-part video series recorded in the real app (English narration, Finnish and Swedish subtitles), with chapters – 1. A quick look at ScaffPilot (3:25: an industrial plant, a high-rise from a template, the rest at a glance), 2. The basics (4:55: screen, language, building, navigating, scaffolds, add-ons, FEM, reports), 3. Building scaffolds (4:15: a scaffold round an L-shaped building with keyboard shortcuts, turned bays, a silo wrap), 4. Weather protection (4:00: roofs by double-click, shaped by keyboard, turned sections, a roof on two scaffolds), 5. A building from drawings and the map (2:48: PDF drawings, map, scaffold, elevation drawing)
- [Sign up](https://scaffpilot.com/signup): create a free account and start in the browser

## Other languages

- [ScaffPilot suomeksi](https://scaffpilot.com/fi/): ilmainen telinesuunnitteluohjelma, FEM-laskenta ja BIM/IFC
- [ScaffPilot på svenska](https://scaffpilot.com/sv/): gratis ställningsprogram med FEM-beräkning och BIM/IFC

## Optional

- [Privacy notice](https://scaffpilot.com/privacy)
- [Terms of use](https://scaffpilot.com/terms)