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What counts in the end is what you take away: sheets for the site and a list for the timber yard. Struqo prints every view as a sheet with title block, on paper or as PDF, and exports drawings as SVG and PNG and the cutlist as CSV. The control each section is about is marked in the picture.

Everything behind one button.

Top right under “Export” you find every way out: PNG, SVG, the cutlist as CSV and “Print / PDF”. Printing also opens with ⌘P, on Windows with Ctrl+P.

Struqo editor, plan of the example carport, top right the open Export menu, marked the entries PNG, SVG, CSV (bill of materials) and Print / PDFStruqo editor, plan of the example carport, top right the open Export menu, marked the entries PNG, SVG, CSV (bill of materials) and Print / PDF
Plan, marked: the “Export” menu.
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  • The same four entries are also in the menu at the top left.
  • Export and printing work without an account.

All views in one PDF.

“Print / PDF” opens a dialog with every drawing of the project, each one its own sheet. You tick which ones come along, and on the right you see the sheets as they will come out of the printer. You save the whole set as PDF in your browser's print dialog.

Struqo editor with the dialog “Print plan or save as PDF”, marked the list of twelve drawings with checkboxes and a scale per drawing, on the right the preview of sheets D2 and D3Struqo editor with the dialog “Print plan or save as PDF”, marked the list of twelve drawings with checkboxes and a scale per drawing, on the right the preview of sheets D2 and D3
Print dialog, marked: the drawings of the project, each one a sheet.
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  • The page format is A4 or A3, portrait or landscape. “Automatic” picks a format that all sheets fit on.
  • The cutlist comes as its own page at the end, once for the whole project.
  • A drawing without components cannot be ticked.

Every sheet with title block and scale.

At the bottom right of every sheet sits the title block with project, view, scale, date, author and version. You choose the scale per drawing from 1:5 to 1:200, or Struqo fits it. Project, author, date and version you enter in the dialog.

Struqo print dialog, marked the scale “Fit automatically” and the title block with project, author, date and version, on the right the preview of D2 with the title block at the bottom rightStruqo print dialog, marked the scale “Fit automatically” and the title block with project, author, date and version, on the right the preview of D2 with the title block at the bottom right
Print dialog, marked: scale and title block.
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  • Print at “Actual size” or 100 % and the scale holds on paper. “Fit to page” distorts it, which is why the note is also on every sheet.
  • The perspective has no scale; the title block then reads “not to scale”.
  • At the foot of every sheet it says that a structural engineer should verify sizing and load-bearing capacity before construction.

The cutlist writes itself as you draw.

Every component you draw appears right away in the “List” tab: lumber, sheathing and fasteners, with cross-section, species, length and count. Below are the order quantities per cross-section and species, with and without waste. You simply read the quantities off.

Struqo editor, perspective of the example carport, on the right the List tab, marked the tab and the fasteners from the H post base to the washer head screw 6 × 120Struqo editor, perspective of the example carport, on the right the List tab, marked the tab and the fasteners from the H post base to the washer head screw 6 × 120
Perspective, marked: the “List” tab and the fasteners.
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  • You set the waste yourself; it starts at 10 %.
  • Your own items such as concrete or screws you add with “Add item”, in pieces, m², running metres or bags.
  • The quantities are presets. Struqo estimates materials; sizing is a job for a structural engineer.

SVG and PNG for everything else.

For the email to the neighbour or the question in a forum you export a flat drawing as SVG or PNG, always whole, however far you have zoomed in. In the 3D view, “Export image” at the bottom right saves exactly the view you have set up.

Struqo editor, perspective of the example carport, marked the Export image button at the bottom rightStruqo editor, perspective of the example carport, marked the Export image button at the bottom right
Perspective, marked: “Export image”.
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  • SVG stays vector, with line weights after DIN EN ISO 128-20 and the hatching, when it is switched on.
  • PNG and SVG come with a transparent background. Grid, guides and selection stay out.
  • From the menu the file is named after your project.

The cutlist as a spreadsheet.

“CSV (bill of materials)” downloads the same list as a spreadsheet, for further sums in Excel, Numbers or LibreOffice and for the timber yard that prefers tables to screenshots. Each row names type, material, species, cross-section, length, count and the order quantities with and without waste.

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  • The English file separates with commas and writes decimals with a point, the German one uses semicolons and decimal commas.
  • The first line reminds you that the quantities are presets.
  • The file name names project and drawing.

Try printing yourself

The example opens on the plan, no sign-in needed. ⌘P or Ctrl+P shows you the print dialog with all twelve drawings.

Open the example carport
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