Canvas drawing engine
Built for how you build.
Draw a deck once and DeckBuild turns it into a code-compliant framing plan along with an optimized cut and material list, all from the same drawing.

DeckBuild creates deck construction drawings by calculating the most cost-efficient way to build a deck, tailored to how you build, following your local code. Start to finish in about 23 seconds.
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DeckBuild's Proprietary Solver
DeckBuild's proprietary solver automatically frames your deck dozens of different ways and outputs the most cost-efficient, code-compliant option, all in a manner of seconds. Each deck's framing is based on your costs, how you build, and to your local code. Manual override anything after if you want.
Built from the materials you use at your actual costs, not generic price lists. Each deck is solved to be most cost-efficient for you.
Your exact footings, your post-to-beam connection hardware, your brand decking boards, your unique build methods.
Span tables and building code for your jurisdiction and code edition. Every deck comes out permit-ready.
DeckBuild has a smart default for everything, all easily and fully customizable to the way you build.
How it works
No pencil-and-paper math, no manually checking span charts, no spreadsheets, no engineer. Create deck plans and takeoffs in under a minute, in the most cost-efficient, code-compliant way, tailored to how you build. DeckBuild handles everything.
Sketch the footprint of the deck, set the deck's height, adjust picture frame and railing placements.

DeckBuild automatically lays out posts, beams, joists, and blocking in the most cost-efficient manner and per your local code and how you personally build decks. Override anything, you stay in control.

One click for permit-ready plans and itemized material and cut lists.

What's inside
Canvas drawing engine
Draw a deck once and DeckBuild turns it into a code-compliant framing plan along with an optimized cut and material list, all from the same drawing.

Structural auto-generation
Rectangle, chamfered corners, bump-outs, multi-level decks, freestanding or ledgered. If you can build it, you can draw it and frame it in DeckBuild.

Material takeoff
From treated to composite to aluminum, cut lists and material takeoffs with exact board, joist, and beam lengths and quantities, itemized all the way down to the fasteners — customized for the material you use and how you order.

Tailored plans
Export clean PDF deck plans including plan view, elevation view, framing layout, structural load calculations, stair stringer details, and more.

3D visualization
Sell more decks. Every deck you draw automatically turns into a photorealistic 3D model. Walk clients through colors, railings, and finishes so that they can picture their new deck on their own house.

Instant estimating & proposals
The moment you draw the deck's outline, the permit-ready drawings are done, the takeoff is done, and your estimate and proposal is done. Labor, materials, overhead, commission and margin roll into a polished, client-ready proposal instantly. No more WAG (Wild Ass Guess) pricing.

Comparison
Is the “way you’ve always done it” costing you money and time? How do you know? Pencil and a pad. A spreadsheet of costs and prices. A drawing tool that doesn’t know a joist from a beam. See everything DeckBuild does that the old way can’t, from automatic code-ready framing to a takeoff that counts every screw. No more WAG (Wild Ass Guessing) your pricing.
Why DeckBuild
Pencil sketches and spreadsheet math mean overbuilding and missed materials, leaving money on the table with every deck. DeckBuild frames each deck dozens of different ways and hands you the most cost-efficient, code-compliant plan and takeoff in mere seconds.
Any of this sound painfully familiar?
With DeckBuild
Pricing
For Pros
Anyone who designs or draws deck plans or creates material orders (you, your salespeople, and office staff). The first user (you/your company admin) is included free. View-only accounts are always free.
You're saving $600 a year (34%) vs paying monthly
14-day free trial · No credit card · Cancel anytime
Everything's included:
For Homeowners
Free to design · Pay only when you download · No subscription
What you get:
For Lumberyards, Agencies & Manufacturers
Custom terms · Apply to get started
What you get:
Straight answers
No. Draw the deck and DeckBuild frames it for you in under a minute — the most cost-efficient, code-compliant structure, customized to exactly how you build: your footings, your framing connections, your methods. Because it instantly checks for the most cost-efficient layout against how you build and your local code, it saves an average of $542 in material per deck versus working it out by pencil and paper.
Yes. DeckBuild exports clean PDF blueprints — plan view, framing layout, elevation views, and a footing load schedule — with your company branding and notes. They're built to hand to your crew or submit for a permit. If needed, you can have a licensed engineer review the plans.
Yes. DeckBuild follows IRC-based residential deck span tables, tuned to the lumber species you use, how you build, how you do your footings, your local frost line, and your local code. And once the deck is drawn, you can customize anything you like — the number and placement of footings, beams, and joists; beam and joist sizing; railing, picture frame, parting board, stairs, and more.
Two clicks gets you everything: permit-ready PDF drawings (plan view, framing, elevations, and load schedule) plus a complete material takeoff and cut list to Excel or CSV — itemized and priced to your catalog, and branded with your logo and company info.
Rectangles, angled and multi-level decks, freestanding or attached to the house — with stairs, railings, picture frame, parting boards, cantilevers, and cut-outs. If you can build it, you can draw it and frame it in DeckBuild.
Completely. Your footings, connection details, fasteners, blocking style, span tables, and decking and stair defaults all flow into every plan automatically — and after the deck is drawn you can override beam and joist sizing, footing type and placement, and more, deck by deck.
Yes. Treated, composite, or aluminum — DeckBuild builds the takeoff from your SKUs, your costs, and your stock lengths, all the way down to the fasteners. No "misc hardware" bucket and no guessing.
Yes. Set your supplier pricing and catalogs once and it flows into every takeoff. Quotes reflect what you actually pay — not a generic national average.
Yes. Invite admins and designers, plus unlimited free view-only accounts. Company-wide defaults — your span tables, build methods, supplier catalogs, and branding — keep every estimator's plans consistent, so a new hire's first plan looks like your tenth.
If you can draw a deck with a pencil, you can draw a deck on DeckBuild — in under a minute, with no training or experience. It's just that easy. DeckBuild runs in any modern browser; use it in the home with a client or back in the office.
For Pros: 14 days of full access, no credit card up front. Build real plans during the trial. If you don't subscribe by the time it ends, your projects simply become read-only — every drawing and takeoff stays safe in your account, and the moment you subscribe you're editing and exporting again right where you left off.
Homeowners don't need a trial — designing your own deck is free, and you only pay a one-time fee per project when you're ready to unlock the material takeoff and export the plans.
Lumberyards, agencies, and manufacturers can partner with DeckBuild to put the tool in front of the Pros and homeowners they already serve.
Start your free 14-day trial, draw a real deck, and watch DeckBuild create full deck plans and a full material takeoff and cut list in real-time. No credit card required.