Case Study: Decks.com achieves permit-ready, drag-and-drop web deck design with LightningCAD

Producing deck designs and plans visually and painlessly

Decks.com, founded to create the best web-based deck designer, needed an easier, more interactive way for non-expert customers to plan and visualize deck projects from planning through installation. LightningCAD’s Decks Designer Software was engaged to meet this vision and overcome concerns about cost and uncertain outcomes by delivering a web solution that would be accessible, accurate, and broadly usable.

LightningCAD built a flexible HTML5 canvas web app with drag-and-drop design, 2D drawing that generates permit-ready plans and materials lists, 3D previews, snapping pre-defined structural configurations, and automatic structural elements that meet US and Canada engineering rules. The result: non-experts can design a deck in minutes, contractors can better sell concepts, the product delivered strong end-user appeal, and LightningCAD’s solution ultimately helped attract buyer interest and facilitate the founder’s sale of Decks.com.

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