Stick

Build a mass out of boxes and cylinders booleaned together — two boxes, a silo through a block, a courtyard punched out — and Stick frames it the way an American crew would. Storeys fall out of the LUMBER rather than a round number: a storey is exactly its plates plus its stud plus the floor platform over it, so changing to a 9-foot wall really does change how many floors fit in the volume. Each storey's plan is a slice of the mass, so a cylinder grows a curved wall of straight studs and a solid that stops at twelve feet stops having walls there — and where two solids meet flush the shared wall is NOT framed twice. Then the ordinary rules, every one of them a parameter: plates single or doubled, studs on the 12/16/19.2/24 module, a corner post that belongs to one wall so a closed loop gets one per corner, rough openings with king studs, jacks, a header sized off the span, cripples and a doubled sill; floor joists clipped to the plan that GROW A GIRDER and posts under it the moment the span beats the table; rim joists, blocking, subfloor; and a gable, shed, flat or open roof with ridge, commons, ceiling joists, collar ties and gable studs. Read the takeoff beside it — pieces, board feet, sheets, pounds and dollars — and export the OBJ (inches, one box per stick), the cut list and takeoff as CSV, and a true-scale framing plan as SVG. And it takes PROVING GROUND’S OWN STUDIES: Sync → “Frame it in Stick” hands the massing across as the boxes, drums and extruded plans it was authored from — not a bounding box — so the scheme you just tested against sun, wind and carbon can be priced in sticks; anything unframable (a sphere, a tilt, an imported mesh with no primitives left) is refused out loud rather than guessed. And the framing is only the default TECTONIC SYSTEM of six: switch the same mass to balloon framing (continuous studs, a ribbon at every floor, fire blocking), a heavy timber frame (bents, girts, mitred knee braces, purlins on a ridge beam), cross-laminated timber panels, cast-in-place concrete with strip footings, or coursed CMU blocks counted one by one — each with its own parameters and its own takeoff (cubic yards and formwork, block and mortar counts, a panel schedule). Client-side, nothing uploaded.