Sketch the run the way you always have. Get the bend marks, the take-up, the gain and the cut list before you set the shoe. No CAD. No classes. No desk.
Start your 2 week free trialREAL JOB. REAL CREW. REAL MATH.If you can sketch a run on a box flap, you can run this app. Your finger is the pencil.
First bend list in ten minutes. It draws the way the trade already reads it.
It lives on the phone in your pocket and works standing at the bender — where the marks go on the pipe.
Every bend prints its math — take-up, gain, and the mark. Check every number before you pull the handle.
Drag your finger the way the conduit runs. Legs snap to real directions. Mark an unknown length "?" and it gets solved.
Material, size, and which bender. It carries the take-up for that shoe and the springback for that material instead of you remembering both.
Offsets, kicks, saddles, rolling offsets. Something in the way? Mark it and it dodges, figuring the angle and the added length.
A cut-and-bend list with every mark measured from one end, the gain accounted for, and the sticks, couplings, straps and connectors on the order.
Field-tested by our crews on live commercial work — nothing staged.
Gloves on, hands filthy? Talk. Up a lift, tape in one hand? Talk. Can't see the screen? Talk. Put your instructions in out loud — it comes back with "got it" so you know it heard you, and that's all it ever says. It uses your device's own voice, so it already sounds like the phone in your pocket.
You: "Run's ten foot, six inch offset around the beam"
It: "Got it."
You: "Make the offset eight inches."
It: "Got it."
The number you lose is the one you read up a ladder and wrote down two minutes later. Say it the second you read it and it's in the sketch. He talks. It listens.
Every length can be typed in off the tape. The laser just means you are not writing numbers on your hand up a ladder.
The runs where a tape needs two people and still sags are the runs where the laser pays for itself.
Shoot it and it goes on the leg you are pointing at. No transcription, no "was that 14-7 or 14-1?"
Tight spaces, dirty glass, bright sun. Type it in and move on — the app does not care where the number came from.
You're standing at the wall looking at the actual obstruction — not a drawing from somebody's office.
No tape-off-the-last-bend. One reference, every mark, so errors don't stack down the stick.
The bend that is figured right does not join the pile. That pile is money you already spent.
Change order? You have the sticks, couplings, straps and connectors counted before you pack up.
Every shop has one — the guy who looks at a wall and just knows where the mark goes, how much that shoe takes up, how much the bend is going to gain. He learned it over forty years from someone who never wrote it down. Now he is retiring. The new guy gets a bender and "figure it out." That gap fills the scrap pile.
Take-up by shoe and size, gain by angle, springback by material, real conduit dimensions. If a number is not published for your bender, it says VERIFY.
It flags the stick that is too short for the bends you asked for before he marks it. The save happens at the bender, not the scrap pile.
Mark, angle, take-up, gain — printed next to the piece. The apprentice learns the arithmetic while he uses it.
The bending knowledge of a forty-year hand, in every pocket on the crew, on every job, forever. That is the whole point.
Two tracks, ten modules each. Run the Program teaches the app; Foreman School teaches the trade. Hand it to your apprentice on day one.
1 · Your first five minutes · 2 · The Job box — material, size, bender · 3 · Benchmarks & reference points · 4 · Drawing the run · 5 · Offsets, kicks, saddles · 6 · Rolling offsets · 7 · Obstruction dodges · 8 · The cut & bend list · 9 · Sheets & match points · 10 · Printing the stack
1 · Take-up, gain, and shrink · 2 · Springback by material · 3 · Reading a conduit or pipe plan · 4 · Measuring to the right point · 5 · The 45 offset — offset × 1.414 · 6 · Saddles & three-point bends · 7 · Supports and spacing · 8 · Ordering material in sticks · 9 · Multi-sheet runs · 10 · Training the next guy
No login. No email. Print it, save it, share it with your crew.
The full bend and takeoff engine, laser link, cut-and-bend lists, and the complete training library. Same price for a one-man shop or a hundred hands — no tiers, no corporate discount.
Start my 2 week free trial2 week free trial, then $59/mo per seat. Cancel anytime.
Tell the Bucket what you have — on the truck, on the rack, or in the corner — and it builds the run around it. The material you already own is the cheapest on the job.
Test it on your own work — free. Two weeks, no card games.
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