Q2, 2025 — huge updates!
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Pun of the week:
What is the best part of hammering out construction puns? Find the answer in the end of this newsletter
👋 Hey there, scaffold heroes — we’ve got news.
A quick note before we jump in:
We’ve grown to 10 full-time team members (!), visited tons of you, and just came back from Bauma where the feedback was clear — you're asking for exactly what we’re building.
It’s been busy, but fun.
Thanks for the energy — now here’s what’s new 👇
In this week’s newsletter, you’ll find:
- 👋 Hey there, scaffold heroes — we’ve got news.
- 🛠️ What’s New
- Scaffolding Features
- 📈 Insanely Fast. Ridiculously Big.
- 🧠 Auto-Correction: Smarter Every Step
- 🧲 Snap-to-Height: Now Even Smarter
- 🧱 Auto-Corners
- 🧰 Select a Whole Scaffold Group in One Click
- 🩹 Patching Made Easy
- 📏 Scaffold Bay Dimensions & Distance Measurements
- 🧳 New Suppliers Added
- Building Features
- Communications & Branding
- 🔬 Scaffcalc Labs: What’s Brewing
- 🤝 Need Help? We’re Here.
- 🎨 AI Artwork of the Week
- ❤️ Thank you.
🛠️ What’s New
Scaffolding Features
📈 Insanely Fast. Ridiculously Big.
You can now model massive projects — think Empire State Building — with higher performance and precision than ever before.
⚡ Load 100x100x100 meter scaffolding structures in seconds
🧱 Enhanced scaffolding detail
📐 Instantly get material lists for huge projects
🧠 Auto-Correction: Smarter Every Step
No more adjusting every bay. The scaffold auto-aligns in height based on the first one.
Set it from the beginning — retrochanges won’t apply.
🧲 Snap-to-Height: Now Even Smarter
Stack scaffolds on rooftops, layered buildings, or terrain — ground level adjusts automatically.
🧱 Auto-Corners
Using a square bay? We’ll patch the corner automatically — and snap other groups right to it.
🧰 Select a Whole Scaffold Group in One Click
Tired of clicking 20 bays with shift+click?
Now you can select an entire scaffold with a single tool.
🩹 Patching Made Easy
Corners now come pre-patched with tubes and planks. Less manual work. Cleaner design.
📏 Scaffold Bay Dimensions & Distance Measurements
Clear visuals of each bay’s real-world size
Detect exact distance to buildings — get dimensions in a click
🧳 New Suppliers Added
Access even more scaffolding materials — ready for dimensioning and export.
Building Features
🧱 Define wall thickness for structural clarity
🏠 Adjust roof angles precisely
🔺 Create perfect geometric shapes effortlessly
Hold shift while dragging out a shape, to create quadratic and perfectly circular objects.
Communications & Branding
💬 Add comments on any object — streamline collaboration
🎨 Brand your projects with custom logos and colors
🌍 Events
✅ Bauma — complete. Incredible feedback.
🗓️ SAIA Annual Convention (Texas, August) — we’re coming
🗓️ Scaff Point (Sweden, Oct 22–23) — meet us there
🔬 Scaffcalc Labs: What’s Brewing
Experiments, sneak peeks, and ideas we’re testing right now...
🧠 Structural calculations (FEM)
🏗️ GEDA hoist integration
🧩 Component-by-component mode for extreme control
🤝 Need Help? We’re Here.
The fastest way to get support is through support@scaffcalc.com — it reaches our whole team.
🎨 AI Artwork of the Week
We asked AI to imagine scaffolding in a parallel universe.
❤️ Thank you.
We’re building Scaffcalc with and for you — our brilliant scaffolders and project leads.
Let us know what you think, and keep pushing the limits of what’s possible.
— Viktor & the Scaffcalc team
Pun of the week:
What’s the best part of hammering out construction puns? Even when the punchline is screwy, you can still nail it.