Submit a building design to Gage and get back a real, buildable cold-formed steel (CFS) framing quote from the Gage fabricator network.

Use this when you have generated or been given a floor plan or 3D house model and need to know what it costs to frame in steel, who would fabricate it, and how it breaks into panels.

Give it structured geometry (levels, walls as start/end points, openings, roof) plus the build site ZIP and project type. It reduces the model to the quoting engine's inputs, checks whether the design can actually be auto-panelized, and returns:

• a structural feasibility flag,

• an itemized quote (steel, transport, engineering, subtotal, confidence band, fabricator and lead time),

• a downloadable preliminary panelization package (panel count, panel footage and totals; the panel-by-panel schedule goes to the Gage fabricator that takes the job).

It refuses rather than guesses. Geometry that is invalid or outside what the engine prices comes back as a structured error; a design that is legible but needs a structural decision (curved walls, a header over 12 ft, a cantilevered storey, tall walls) comes back with status "needs_human_review" and no price. A quote is only ever returned for a design that passed every check.

Pricing, tonnage and fabricator routing are computed by Gage API v1, not by this tool. Panelization output is preliminary and unstamped; stamped shop drawings are issued by the assigned fabricator after a quote is accepted.