ScaffPilot / Tutorials

Tutorials · eight-part series

See ScaffPilot in action.

Eight short videos, recorded in the real app. Watch them in order – each one builds on the one before: a quick look, the basics, scaffolds built with the keyboard, weather protection, a building from PDF drawings and the map, cloud files, teams and co-editing, formwork, and the site plan.

  1. 1A quick look at ScaffPilot3:33
  2. 2The basics5:01
  3. 3Building scaffolds4:16
  4. 4Weather protection4:06
  5. 5A building from drawings and the map2:48
  6. 6Cloud files, teams and co-editing5:34
  7. 7Formwork3:38
  8. 8The site plan4:15

Part 1 of 8

A quick look at ScaffPilot 3:33

An industrial plant from the Extras menu with a scaffold wrapped round a tank, a high-rise from a building template with a mobile crane, site huts and a stair tower, and a glance at the material list, the FEM calculation, drawings and reports.

English narration. Finnish and Swedish subtitles – switch them on with the player’s CC button.

  1. 0:39An industrial plant
  2. 1:44A high-rise
  3. 2:37And there’s more

Part 3 of 8

Building scaffolds 4:16

A scaffold taken all the way round an L-shaped building with a balcony using only the keyboard: Shift+D for new bays, Shift+R to turn them round the balcony and the corners, Shift+L to fit a wall; then more shortcuts, a wrap round a silo and a change in the panel.

English narration. Finnish and Swedish subtitles – switch them on with the player’s CC button.

  1. 0:36The building
  2. 1:00Navigating
  3. 1:19A new scaffold: Shift+D
  4. 1:38Round the balcony
  5. 2:15Round the corners
  6. 3:09More shortcuts
  7. 3:30Wrapping a silo
  8. 3:49Changing a scaffold

Part 4 of 8

Weather protection 4:06

A weather-protection roof with a double-click, getting around it, shaping it with the keyboard, one section shorter and longer, an almost L-shaped roof turned section by section, tilting and moving it, and a roof fitted on two scaffolds around a house.

English narration. Finnish and Swedish subtitles – switch them on with the player’s CC button.

  1. 0:33A roof with a double-click
  2. 0:50Getting around
  3. 1:04Shaping it with the keyboard
  4. 1:15One section, shorter and longer
  5. 1:44An almost L-shaped roof
  6. 2:29Tilting and moving
  7. 3:00A house and its scaffolds
  8. 3:19A roof on two scaffolds

Part 6 of 8

Cloud files, teams and co-editing 5:34

Saving a project to the cloud, where it saves itself; a team with a member on the free plan; two people editing the same plan live, with avatars, selections in each person’s colour and an undo that only undoes your own changes; sharing one file by email and sending it to a customer, who reviews it read-only; and storage.

English narration. Finnish and Swedish subtitles – switch them on with the player’s CC button.

  1. 0:31Saving to the cloud
  2. 1:32Teams
  3. 2:24Editing together
  4. 3:52Sharing by email
  5. 4:57Storage

Part 7 of 8

Formwork 3:38

Wall formwork along a wall’s centre line, with panels on both faces, ties and props; a taller wall with stacked panels, platform brackets and one-sided formwork in the panel; slab formwork with props, beams and plywood; formwork right round a building with one Shift+click; and the Formwork group of the material list, the reports and quotation requests.

English narration. Finnish and Swedish subtitles – switch them on with the player’s CC button.

  1. 0:34Wall formwork
  2. 1:11Changing it in the panel
  3. 1:48Slab formwork
  4. 2:27Round a building
  5. 2:58Moving and deleting
  6. 3:09Material list and outputs

Part 8 of 8

The site plan 4:15

A street map under the site from its address; a site fence with a vehicle gate and a pedestrian gate; laydown, office and no-go zones; a site hut and a mobile crane with its reach following it over a slewing sector; edge protection on the roof; and the site-plan sheet with its legend and north arrow, saved as a PDF.

English narration. Finnish and Swedish subtitles – switch them on with the player’s CC button.

  1. 0:32A map under the site
  2. 1:06A fence with gates
  3. 1:46Zones
  4. 2:50A crane and its reach
  5. 3:19Edge protection
  6. 3:46The site-plan sheet

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