Everything to plan, price, and permit a dock.
Dock Builder turns a rough idea into a buildable plan: draw the dock in 2D, let it figure the materials and pilings, turn that into a quote, and export drawings ready for a permit application — all in one place.
2D dock planner
Drag out rectangular sections and triangular supports, add gangways, boat lifts, and covered structures, then place cleats, lights, ladders, bumpers, and pilings — with snapping, rotation, grouping, and copy/paste.
Automatic takeoff
Every section computes its own decking boards, framing members, floats, pilings, and hardware as you draw — no spreadsheets. Switch between dimensional lumber and composite decking and the cut-list updates.
Quotes in a click
Roll the takeoff into a quote with your labor rate, margin, and tax. Product prices snapshot from the catalog at quote time so old quotes never change when prices do.
Permit-ready plans
Export scaled PDF exhibits with a title block, applicant and engineer blocks, and the views a jurisdiction expects — the paperwork side of a dock, handled.
Offline-first
The canvas runs locally and saves to your browser, so it keeps working with no connection and syncs back up when you’re online again. No account required to start.
Built for teams
Share a read-only or comment link, leave notes on the plan, and bring your crew into an org workspace with company branding on every quote and PDF.
A 2D planner built specifically for docks
The canvas understands docks — not just shapes. A section is a real deck with a frame and decking; a support is an angled fill; pilings, cleats, lights, ladders, and bumpers attach to the dock and move with it. Add gangways, cradle or PWC boat lifts, and boathouse or canopy structures, and mark up the site with property lines, shoreline, setbacks, and measurement lines.
Sections snap flush to each other, rotate the whole layout to your shoreline, group elements that move together, and drop the plan onto an aerial map of the real site to get scale and bearing right.
Materials and pilings, calculated as you draw
Dock Builder ports the float-spacing, wood-frame, and decking cut-list logic builders actually use. Each dock section derives its parts on the fly:
- Decking boards with a true cut-list, in lumber or composite (e.g. Weardeck)
- Framing: perimeter rim, joists on-center, and blocking — sized to the section
- Float placement and spacing for floating docks
- Pilings you place by hand, plus auto-generated starter layouts for pier docks
- Cleats, lights, ladders, bumpers, and the hardware that goes with them
From plan to quote to permit
The same model that draws the dock prices it. Turn the takeoff into a quote with your margins and tax, version it as the scope changes, and snapshot real product data so quotes stay stable. When you’re ready to submit, export permit-ready PDF exhibits with proper scale and title blocks.
Draw your first dock in a couple of minutes.
No account, no install — open the builder and start designing. Everything saves locally; upgrade to Dock Builder when you need takeoffs, quotes, and permit PDFs.