MiTek offers unified 3-D estimating

MiTek Industries’ Sapphire Supply software solution is gaining strong reception and adoption among lumber and building material dealers.

Sapphire Supply is a single-source software solution that combines complete materials estimating and structural frame design. It also incorporates the building material supplier’s product SKUs to create a complete quote, while performing analysis and design on a wide range of structural products, including engineered wood products (EWP), dimensional lumber, and metal connectors and hangers.

“MiTek continues to innovate and release new software solutions as part of our Sapphire Suite. Sapphire Supply is part of our award-winning offering of integrated, optimized, collaborative design solutions,” said Brian McCormick, MiTek’s director of Residential Supply Chain. “Using any module of the SAPPHIRE Suite allows information sharing and design collaboration to the lot-specific level, helping to ensure the Buildability of any structure.”

The solution uses a single shared structural model, offering dealers a unified solution for efficient, accurate modeling and estimating across their organizations. It can also generate SKU-based materials counts for non-structural materials, such as drywall, house wrap and millwork. In addition Additionally, Sapphire Supply’s automated framing tools allow users to quickly evaluate alternative framing scenarios.