The designer
Draw the gate the way you build it.
Pick the structure, enter the sizes, and every post, rail, picket, and finial lands where it belongs. Change one number and the whole drawing follows, with the dimensions and the cut list right behind it.
What you draw
Real drawings, from a sentence or a few settings.
These are rendered by the same engine you get in the designer, each from the kind of sentence a fabricator would actually say. Every one of them is editable, part by part.
Double swing driveway gate
“14 foot double swing driveway gate, 5 feet tall, arched top, alternating twisted pickets, fleur-de-lis finials, 4 inch posts”
Arched walk gate
“4 foot wide by 6 foot tall walk gate with an arched top, spear point pickets, 3 inch posts”
Cantilever slide gate
“16 foot cantilever slide gate, 6 feet tall, flat top, 4 inch posts”
Stair handrail
“36 inch handrail for 6 steps, 7-1/2 inch rise, 10-1/2 inch run, half inch pickets, surface mount posts”
- Sloped ground is a setting. A gate or fence panel can follow the grade as a whole, or keep the top level and let only the bottom follow it.
- Whole openings in one drawing. Add a panel, and the gate, its side panels, and the fence that runs off it each keep their own settings.
- Any top profile. Flat, arched, camelback, peaked, or rolled peak, and the pickets, rails, and frame follow the curve without being redrawn.
Every part is a control
Nothing is baked into a template.
The configuration column is grouped the way the gate is built, so the change you want to make is where you would look for it.
Structure
Panel Basics, Posts, Frame, Rails, Pickets, and Uprights. The type, the material sizes, and the spacing.
Top
Top Profile. Flat, arched, camelback, peaked, or rolled peak, with spear points or library finials on the pickets.
Assembly
Braces, Picket Connections, Panel Mounting, Panel Lock, and Mounting Plate. How it goes together and how it hangs.
Additions
Masonry Columns wrap the posts in brick or stone. Barb Wire runs along the top. Dog Pickets go between the main pickets.
Ornament
Components, Shapes, Vines and Branches, Section Fill, Section Trim, and Text, clipped to the frame so nothing spills past the panel.
Units
Measurement Settings. Imperial or metric, set once, and every dimension, cut list, and download follows.
Slide Settings and the handrail sections, Handrail Layout, Cap, Ends, and Slope to Level Transition, only appear when the structure calls for them, so the column stays as short as the design allows.
Tig sits next to the drawing
Describe the change, or make it yourself.
Tig is docked beside the canvas, not off in a chat window. Describe a gate and it draws it. Describe a change and it makes only that change.
Refine in plain language
Make it six inches taller. Switch to twisted pickets. Add a middle rail. Tig changes only what you asked for and leaves the rest of the design alone.
Take over any time
Everything Tig sets is a control you can open and change. When a request is outside what it can draw, it says so and points you at the control that does it.
How it works
Three steps, and the drawing does the rest.
- 1
Start it
Describe the gate to Tig, or open Panel Basics and pick the structure yourself. Either way you get an editable drawing, not a picture.
- 2
Dial it in
Every part of the design is a control. Change a size, a spacing, or a profile and the drawing redraws around it.
- 3
Send it out
Annotate it, pull the cut list, price it, and download the package. All of it comes from the same drawing.
Nothing gets redrawn downstream. The annotations, the cut list, the estimate, and the download package all read the design you just drew.
What it costs
Draw first. Decide later.
The demo designer runs in the browser with no account and no card, so you can draw a gate before you decide anything. Everything past it, from saving a drawing to the component library, cut lists, estimates, and downloads, runs on ODP Full Access. Every new account starts with a 30-day free trial of full access, no credit card required, and nothing is charged unless you choose a plan.
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