Drawing-room precision.
Shop-floor discipline.
Audit-ready traceability.
Steel3D LTD helps UK fabrication businesses save time and money by uniting LOD 400 modelling, complete drawing packs, and a weld identification system designed around how shops actually work — from GA PDFs to welder sign-in on this website (native app on Google Play later), with qualification gates and evidence that stands up to scrutiny.
- PDF pack
- QR link
- Shop proof
- Audit pack
One thread from GA drawings to weld evidence and BS EN 1090-ready records — without replacing your engineering judgement.
Advance Steel & AutoCAD draughting — with fabrication intelligence behind it.
Steel3D LTD produces complete drawing packs, GA outputs, and clear communication between design intent and production. Where many traceability tools stop at paperwork, our roadmap targets the live weld: volts, amps, weld length, interpass, preheat, distortion control, sequencing — captured accurately because welding is safety-critical and legally accountable.
Problem solving, site visits, and practical guidance.
From joint geometry judgement to fit-up clarity and inspection evidence, you work with a team that has lived the shop — not a generic software reseller.
- LOD 400 deliverables aligned to your workflow
- Photo upload channels for conditions, fit-up, and repairs
- Optional site visits when the job demands eyes on steel
- Clients may upload shop PDFs, or Steel3D LTD can manage projects end-to-end
Certified draughting. Certified welding perspective.
Distinction-grade City & Guilds Level 2 & 3 AutoCAD, Graitec Certified Advance Steel users, coded MIG welders, RWC, and visual weld inspectors — the rare combination that keeps models, symbols, and shop reality aligned, backed by 40 years of fabrication experience.
Advance Steel & AutoCAD
LOD 400 steel modelling, connections, and drawing packs engineered for fabrication and erection clarity.
RWC-led thinking
WPS libraries, welder qualification tracking, calibration reminders, and evidence trails suitable for disciplined FPC environments.
Visual discipline
Structured records, photographs, parameters, and end-of-job paper inspection packs generated consistently.
From BOM-first PDF intelligence to shop-floor proof — one connected system.
Steel3D LTD is the commercial-grade platform: AI reads your Advance Steel / AutoCAD PDF packs, builds traceable assembly and GA QR hierarchies, and gives managers a real-time digital twin with BS EN 1090 audit exports. Welders and fabricators sign in on steel3d.co.uk today; a dedicated Google Play app is on the roadmap — with human and RWC sign-off at every safety gate.
Vision-to-solid
BOM-first OCR and vector parsing; “Real Steel” LOD 400 shading; auto BW / FW / MFW from joint geometry; UK stock-length nesting intelligence.
Master QR
Assembly QR on every stamped PDF; GA master QR aggregates the job; Project Pulse dashboard with tonnage, completion %, and green/red layout.
Welder web portal
Welders sign in on steel3d.co.uk (no app install yet): qual/WPS lockout, parameter and photo capture. Roadmap: native Google Play app, acoustic arc checks, AR ghost fitter, metallurgical timers.
Manager & auditor
Luxury dark dashboard; live red-to-green weld nodes; multi-project 3D review; one-click unified inspection record PDF for notified bodies.
Live today on steel3d.co.uk: marketing site, manager portal, PDF/QR preview, and document search. Further Steel3D LTD modules roll out on the roadmap with the same Supabase core — accuracy and legal defensibility first.
Scan once. Open the right weld pack. Prove it.
Welders scan the assembly QR, sign in on the website, and receive weld prep, parameters, sequence notes, and inspection prompts. Managers see the same job heartbeat in real time; clients see only what you authorise.
- Upload — drag-and-drop shop PDFs; system registers assemblies and weld IDs.
- Stamp — QR embedded top-left on assembly or GA PDFs, linking to the job record.
- Authorise — Steel3D LTD verifies client accounts; welders must hold valid qualifications in-system.
- Execute — capture volts, amps, length, interpass, preheat, and photographic evidence.
- Close — generate merged inspection dossier and paper inspection record packs for filing.
Public pages are engineered for technical SEO (structured data, clean headings, fast static delivery on WordPress, descriptive copy aligned to “structural steel traceability”, “BS EN 1090 weld records”, “Advance Steel GA”, and related intent). Welders and fabricators use the responsive web portal on steel3d.co.uk today. A native Google Play app is planned for a later release — same account, no rebuild from scratch.
Exceptional outputs for auditors — because welding is not optional ethics.
Software cannot “certify” steelwork. What it must do is make your Factory Production Control easier to evidence: unique weld identification, qualified personnel, correct procedures, calibrated plant, and retrievable records. Steel3D’s roadmap is shaped around those non-negotiables.
- Immutable audit trails — who changed what, when, and under which revision of the WPS.
- Qualifier expiry automation — welders, procedures, and equipment calibration windows surfaced early.
- Role separation — welders cannot self-authorise out-of-scope processes.
- Evidence bundles — PDF + photo + parameter exports formatted for notified body review meetings.
Cloud-native platform. Supabase for auth, data, and realtime.
The traceability layer is built on Supabase: Postgres with Row Level Security for tenant isolation, Auth for welders and managers, Storage for PDFs and photos, and Realtime for live weld-node status. Shop-floor users work in the browser today; a Play Store build can follow later via a wrapper (TWA or Capacitor) when you are ready.
Single source of truth
Projects, assemblies, welds, personnel matrices, machines, WPS revisions, and inspection events in one queryable model.
Model truth
Link QR reports to viewer-hosted models for GA-scale understanding without shipping native CAD to the shop floor.
Assisted, not autonomous
Symbol recognition, weld type suggestions, and nesting proposals always pass through qualified human approval gates.
Four SaaS tiers — platform value beyond PDF storage alone.
Pricing reflects the full portal: AI document search, WPS and welder certificate library, QR-stamped drawings, and BS EN 1090 evidence trails — not just file uploads. Start free on one assembly, scale to full GA traceability, then add Elite AI for UK stock nesting, AR, and metallurgy. Enterprise includes managed deployment and RWC oversight. Figures below are targets (annual billing on paid tiers).
| Tier | Price (target) | Who it serves | Key permissions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 — Shop Floor Trial | £0 | Startups testing one assembly | First 10 assembly PDFs; AI search on those files; QR stamp (top-left); 1 welder basic logging. No GA master QR, WPS library, or purchase-order AI. |
| 2 — Pro Traceability | £249–£349 / mo | Mid-size shops (20–100 t/mo) | Unlimited PDFs; Steel3D AI assistant (keyword search, WPS & cert uploads); GA master QR; up to 10 welder logins; qual/WPS lockout; BS EN 1090 inspection record export. |
| 3 — Elite AI & Metallurgy | £699–£899 / mo | Heavy structural / Tier-1 | Pro + AI purchase-order drafting (UK stock 12 m / 15 m), BOM-from-PDF, AR Ghost Fitter, acoustic arc AI, kJ/mm & interpass; unlimited welder configs. |
| 4 — Enterprise (Managed) | Custom quote | Engineering firms / external compliance | Full deployment, client portals, site visits and authorised inspector consultancy (day rates). |
Contact steve@steel3d.co.uk for annual quotes, tonnage-based Enterprise pricing, or a scoped pilot on your next GA pack.
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