BLT WORKS provides hands-on MBS configuration, proprietary detail library access, database optimization, and drawing standards elevation for PEMB manufacturers and dealers — so your team can quote faster, close more, and produce cleaner work.
Your estimating environment, detail libraries, pricing databases, and BOM outputs — configured specifically for your product line and manufacturing methods. Not a generic setup. Yours.
Quote faster. Produce cleaner.Access to a continuously expanding in-house detail library built and refined across real PEMB engagements. Clients don't start from scratch — they start from a library nobody else has.
A head start. Every time.Title blocks, sheet layout, CAD best practices, revision handling, file and folder structure — and the training to make your drafting team carry it forward. Your drawings should look as good as your buildings.
Close more. Look the part.Where We Fit
Metal Building Software does a lot — and most shops are getting real use out of it. But a configuration that was stood up quickly, inherited from a previous employee, or grown organically over several years often has gaps that are easy to live with until you start looking at them closely.
Detail libraries that are mostly complete. Databases that are mostly accurate. Drawing standards that mostly hold together. Those qualifiers add friction in small ways across quotes, drawing sets, and production — not catastrophically, but consistently.
It's not a broken system — it's a system with headroom that hasn't been captured yet. That's what BLT Works is built to address.
Not necessarily broken — but conditions added over time by different people in different ways. Estimators know what's there but also know what's missing or unreliable.
When your team routinely checks MBS takeoffs against their own numbers before trusting them, there's something in the database worth finding and fixing.
Most shops have a general sense of how drawings should look. But when that knowledge isn't documented, it's inconsistently applied — especially as the team changes.
When the person who knows the system best is out, things slow down. When they leave, that knowledge goes with them. It's a risk most shops are aware of but haven't addressed.
Services
Hands-on work — not consulting reports. We get into your system, understand how your shop builds and documents its work, and configure everything to work the way you work.
Full configuration of your MBS environment — estimating parameters, cost modules, building code assignments, drawing output settings, and plot styles — built around your product line and how your shop builds, not a generic template.
Core ServiceCustom detail libraries built for your panel systems, trim details, and standard conditions — organized so your estimating team can find what they need in one click, and structured so new entries get added right going forward.
Core ServiceA full audit and cleanup of your MBS backend — pricing databases, material tables, condition logic, and weight/cost entries. Errors corrected, missing data populated, and BOM outputs you can trust without verifying by hand.
High ImpactYour quote packages should reflect your company — not your manufacturer's stock template. We optimize output formats, cover sheets, and drawing layouts so what leaves your desk looks like it came from a firm that takes the work seriously.
DifferentiatorProfessionally designed title blocks, standardized sheet layouts, consistent linework and layer conventions, and formal revision handling — so every drawing that leaves your shop looks like it came from the same professional organization.
PresentationYour product line changes. Codes update. New details get developed in the field. We stay engaged month to month — maintaining, expanding, and keeping your MBS setup and libraries current as your shop evolves.
RetainerThe BLT Library
Every BLT Works client gets access to our in-house proprietary detail library — built from scratch, refined across real PEMB engagements, and expanded continuously as new conditions, products, and field realities emerge.
This isn't a starting template or a manufacturer's stock library with a different name. It's a living asset developed specifically for the conditions that show up in real PEMB work — trim conditions, panel transitions, connection details, and the edge cases that most libraries don't cover because most libraries were built once and never touched again.
When your team starts a quote, they're not building from zero. They're building from a library that's already done most of the work — and gets more complete every month you're on it.
Drawing Standards & Presentation
Most PEMB shops produce drawings that are technically correct but visually inconsistent and professionally underwhelming. We change that — and make sure your team can sustain it.
A professionally designed, CAD-ready title block built for your brand — with the right fields, the right layout, and the right balance between information density and visual clarity. One standard, every sheet.
Defined viewport arrangements, border styles, scale conventions, and drawing organization standards — so every drawing set your team produces has a consistent, architectural-quality layout regardless of who drafted it.
Layer management, linetype standards, text styles, dimension styles, and block conventions — the foundations that separate a professional CAD environment from one that accumulated habits over years without intention.
A formal, consistent revision process — revision clouds, delta markers, revision blocks, and documentation conventions — so changes are tracked clearly and clients and contractors can follow the history of every sheet.
A defined, logical project file structure — naming conventions, folder hierarchy, and archiving standards — so anyone on your team can find what they need, and jobs don't get buried in inconsistent folder trees.
Standards are only as good as the team that follows them. We work directly with your drafters — explaining the why behind the standards, walking through best practices, and building habits that stick after we're out of the room.
Results
These outcomes compound. A cleaner MBS setup feeds better library access. Better libraries produce faster quotes. Better drawings close more of them.
A complete detail library and clean MBS setup means your estimators can run more quotes per day. That expands your sales capacity without adding headcount.
Polished, professional quote packages — and drawing sets that look architectural rather than utilitarian — build buyer confidence. The presentation is part of the sale.
Accurate databases mean the shop floor gets what the system says it should. Fewer shortages, less rework, and fewer emergency material orders on jobs that should have been clean.
Every hour spent fixing MBS output or cleaning up drawings before they go to a customer is overhead. We eliminate those corrections at the source, not downstream.
Defined standards and trained drafters mean output quality doesn't depend on who's in the chair. Every drawing that leaves your shop looks like it came from the same professional operation.
Dealers especially: when your quotes, drawings, and MBS outputs are distinctly yours — not recycled from a manufacturer's stock setup — your company has an identity your competitors don't.
How It Works
30–60 minutes understanding your setup — MBS version, product line, current pain points, drawing environment, and what a win looks like for your operation.
We get into your MBS environment and your CAD setup — documenting what's there, what's wrong, what's missing, and what order to address things in for maximum early impact.
MBS configuration, library integration, database cleanup, title block design, and standards documentation — built in parallel, deployed in stages. You're looped in throughout.
We walk your team through everything that's been built and why. Then we stay on retainer — maintaining, expanding, and keeping all of it current as your shop grows.
Who This Is For
We work with PEMB manufacturers and dealers who are serious about running a tighter operation. Here's what that looks like in practice.
You're a PEMB manufacturer or dealer running MBS and you know the setup isn't as clean or complete as it should be.
You're a dealer running a manufacturer's stock MBS files and you want your quotes and drawings to look like they came from your company — not theirs.
Your drafting department has no formal standards — different title blocks, inconsistent layouts, no revision process — and it shows in your deliverables.
You've had BOM errors reach the shop floor and you know the root cause is somewhere in your MBS database — but no one's had time to find it.
Your MBS expertise or drafting knowledge left with an employee — and you need someone who can own that institutional knowledge going forward.
You want your drawing sets to look architectural — the kind that GCs and architects take seriously — and you're not there yet.
Most shops don't know how much time and money they're losing until someone gets inside the system and shows them. A 30-minute call is enough to figure out where you stand and what it would take to change it.
Book a Discovery CallAbout
BLT WORKS was founded by a PEMB industry professional with years of hands-on experience in MBS configuration, Tekla Structures, metal building detailing, and CAD standards development. This isn't a software consulting firm that learned MBS from documentation.
It's someone who has built detail libraries, configured estimating databases, drawn erection and shop drawings, and worked directly inside the systems — and the daily friction — that your team deals with. That context is the difference between advice and actually knowing what you're doing.
Every client gets direct access to the person doing the work. No account managers, no ticket queues. When you have a question about your MBS setup or your drawing standards, you're talking to the person who built them.
"We had been running off the manufacturer's stock files for years. After BLT Works built out our own configuration and library, our estimators stopped second-guessing details — they just trusted the system. The speed difference was immediate."
— Estimating Manager, PEMB Manufacturer"The drawing standards work was something we kept saying we'd get to someday. BLT Works got it done in a few weeks and trained our drafters on it the same way. Our deliverables look completely different now — in the best way."
— Operations Director, Regional Metal Building Dealer"BOM accuracy improvement alone justified the retainer. We were catching material errors after they hit the shop floor. Now we don't see them there because they don't make it that far."
— Production Manager, PEMB ManufacturerContact
Tell us what's going on — MBS, drawing standards, or both — and we'll get back to you within one business day.
We respond to every inquiry within one business day. If your situation is urgent — a live quote backlog, a production error, a go-live deadline — say so and we'll prioritize accordingly.
US-BASED. REMOTE-DELIVERED.
BLT Works serves PEMB manufacturers and dealers across the country. All work is performed remotely — no on-site visits required. You get direct access to the person doing the work, not a support queue.