Layer 1
Eight applications
CadCraft, BimCraft, ModelCraft, MarkupCraft, TakeoffCraft, CivilCraft, DetailCraft and PartCraft provide familiar specialist work surfaces.
Build the engine once. Apply it across fields.
Different industries need different symbols, standards and reports, but they often share geometry, connectivity, calculations and data rules. The Great Eight platform direction is to reuse that foundation rather than reinvent it for every profession.
Layer 2
Shared engineering functions
Proposed cross-discipline engines cover connectivity, fluid networks, motion, systems and other common mathematics. Each must earn trust through tests.
Layer 3
Field packs
A planned field pack would install a discipline’s symbols, templates, standards packs, calculators, lessons and example files into applicable apps.
Layer 4
Proof and delivery
A useful engineering project produces repeatable files, units, assumptions, tests and a reviewable change history. A beautiful screenshot is not sufficient.
In the apps
A concrete example
A fluid-network solver could serve plumbing, industrial piping, HVAC and site utilities with different standards, components and reporting rules. Shared numerical code does not remove the need for discipline validation.
Electrical and electronics add-ons
Add-ons for electrical and electronics work, with where each one stands today. The status comes from the add-on catalogue, so it changes when the add-on does.
Live
Electrical
Schematics, panel schedules, one-lines for buildings.
Live
Harness and cabinet wiring
Wire harnesses and control-cabinet wiring.
Live
Telecom
Towers, antennas, fiber routes.
Built · in the lab
Boards (PCB)
Schematic to board, Gerber, enclosure fit.
Built · in the lab
Circuits
Circuit simulation from the schematic.
Built · in the lab
Controls and PLC
Schematics, terminal plans, PLC I/O, virtual commissioning.
Built · in the lab
Magnetics
Magnetostatics for magnet design.