Solar Mount Builder
Model a complete PV mounting table and export its steel bill of materials — without leaving SketchUp.
Minutes, not hours
From parameters to a finished table
One source of truth
Model and takeoff from the same inputs
Nothing new to buy
Runs inside the SketchUp you already have
Why it exists
Built for fabricated steel, not proprietary racking.
Mounting tools from the racking manufacturers list their own kit — rails, clamps, anchors. That is no use when your structures are fabricated from standard sections and priced by the kilo.
Solar Mount Builder models the real members and reports them by section, length and mass, with a cut list your fabricator can work from.
Capability
What it builds, and what you get out.
What it builds
- Panels, purlins, rafters and legs as one tilted table
- Portrait and landscape mixed within a row
- Any member as a lattice truss
- Optional footings, base plates, braces and walkways
- Legs solved automatically from the tilt
What you get out
- Accurate 3D geometry, tagged and named
- Bill of materials by section, length and mass
- Cut list and concrete quantities
- CSV export for procurement
- Live kWp and spacing readouts as you work
Configuration
Everything is an input.
Nothing in the tool is a fixed assumption. Every section, spacing rule, setback, material and naming convention is an input — so it keeps growing around the way your firm actually works.
Your own section library. Your drawing and tag conventions. Your BOM format. Additional members your standard table uses. A different output altogether. If you can describe it, it is usually something we can build in.
Status
Where it stands today.
Current scope
- One fixed-tilt table per run, rooftop or ground-mounted, on a flat base. Any array size.
- SketchUp 2017 or later, Windows or macOS.
- A preliminary load-check engine is included but is being verified against STAAD Pro — analysis and sign-off stay with a licensed engineer.
In development
- Verified structural checking, calibrated to STAAD Pro
- STAAD Pro export
- Multi-table site layouts
- Terrain following
- Channel and angle section library
- Fastener counts and stock-length nesting
One honest note. How much of your workflow is worth automating is not something either of us should guess. We study it first — your drawings, templates and standards — then tell you plainly what can be fully automated, what is better left with your engineer, how long it takes and what it costs. Fixed scope, fixed price, agreed before anything is built.
Request a demo
See it run on your own structure.
Send your standard table specification and we'll demonstrate Solar Mount Builder on your configuration rather than ours.