Quickstart

Walls, quoted. This page is the whole job end to end — drawings in, a designed and priced wall out, a link you can send to your customer. Everything else in this manual is one of these steps in detail.

Updated 5 Nov 20262 minApplies to: Retaining WallFeedback →

The five things to remember

A project holds a drawing set and its walls. Create one, upload the plans, and everything else happens inside it.
A takeoff traces the wall you're pricing — either in plan view, along its run, or in elevation view, around its face. Struction turns that trace into a wall envelope.
Quote Builder turns the envelope into a real wall — actual blocks, actual geogrid, checked for stability against the soil and loading you give it.
Pricing comes from your pricing table, not from us. Set it up once and every quote uses it.
Publishing produces a page you send. Your customer opens a quote with material counts and a 3D model they can spin, without installing anything.

Your first quote

Sign in and set your units. Imperial or metric, from the settings menu. See Signing in.
Set up a pricing table so your quote has numbers in it. Struction ships a Default table; make your own when you're ready. See Pricing tables.
Create a project and upload the drawing set. Struction processes it and finds the pages your walls are on. See Creating a project.
Set the scale on the page you're taking off. Nothing measures correctly until you do. See Setting scale.
Take the wall off. Trace it in plan view if you're working from a site plan, or in elevation view if you have wall elevations.
Open Quote Builder. Struction designs a wall that fits the envelope: units, geogrid, embedment. See Quote Builder.
Give it the ground. Soil properties, slopes and surcharge are yours to set; the design is only as good as they are. See Design inputs and Cross-sections and stability.
Price it. Freight and custom line items. See Quote configuration.
Publish and share. See Publishing your quote.