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Site Sketch Tool

Draw the pier layout right on the lot.

Paste the address, get a satellite image of the property, and drop your piers where they are going. Push, helical, slab, beams, cracks, drainage: the symbols are built for foundation work, not borrowed from an office floor-plan app. When you save, the sketch lands on the job, next to the estimate and the photos, where the whole team can find it.
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How it works
Built into OblyssPro. One less login, one less monthly bill, one place your drawings live.
Sketch · 1420 Maple Ridge Dr
Foundation run · 42 ft
The drawing that lives in three places

Your pier diagram should not need its own subscription.

Here is how it usually goes. The estimator sketches the pier layout on graph paper at the house. Back at the office, somebody redraws it in a separate drawing app that costs a seat every month. Then the diagram gets exported, emailed, and dropped into a folder that has nothing to do with the job it belongs to.

So now the drawing lives in three places and matches the job in none of them. The crew shows up with the paper version. The office has the app version. The customer file has a screenshot from two revisions ago. When someone asks “how many piers did we quote,” you get three answers.

You do not need a full engineering CAD suite to sketch where the piers go. You need a fast, foundation-specific drawing surface that saves straight to the job. That is what this is.

One drawing, on the job

Sketch on a satellite image of the actual lot, drop foundation symbols, measure the runs, and save. The sketch attaches to the job record alongside the estimate, the contract, and the field photos. No export, no separate login, no wondering which version is current. The one on the job is the one that is real.
Built for foundation work

Symbols made for piers, not for cubicles.

More than thirty symbols purpose-built for foundation repair, so a layout takes seconds instead of you drawing a helical pier from scratch every time. Here is a sample of what is in the palette.
Push pier
Helical pier
Slab pier
Beam
Crack
Grade arrow
Sump pump
Drainage
French drain
Slab outline
Pier & beam
Dimension
Thirty-plus symbols in all, plus freehand drawing for anything the palette does not cover. Pair a sketch with the pier installation log and the plan you drew becomes the record you installed against.
How it works

Address to saved sketch, in four steps.

No blank canvas, no manual tracing. Start from a picture of the real property and build the plan on top of it.
1

Paste the address

Type the property address and pull in a satellite image of the lot as your background, so you are drawing on the real footprint, not a guess.

2

Start from a template

Drop in a slab, pier-and-beam, or basement starter template so the common shape is already there, then adjust it to the house in front of you.

3

Place symbols & measure

Drag piers, beams, cracks, and drainage onto the plan. Use the distance, angle, and freehand tools to lay out spacing and mark the runs.

4

Save or export

Save the sketch to the job's gallery or download it as a PNG for a proposal, a permit packet, or the crew's work order.

Satellite import

Draw on the real lot, not a blank rectangle.

A hand sketch on graph paper never quite matches the property. The driveway is on the wrong side, the setback is a guess, the addition nobody mentioned is missing. Start from a satellite image of the actual address and those problems go away. You place piers relative to the real foundation, the real trees, the real access points a crew has to work around.

It makes the drawing more useful to everyone downstream: the homeowner recognizes their own house, the crew sees where to stage, and the office is not deciphering a rectangle with arrows.

  • Address to image in one paste, pulled from a satellite map.
  • Measurement tools for distance, angle, and freehand marking.
  • Starter templates for slab, pier-and-beam, and basement.
Sketch gallery · Job #4471
Pier layout · front elevation Saved to job
Drainage plan · rear PNG exported
Crawlspace access notes On the record
The Right Fit for Your Workflow

Not a full engineering CAD suite. On purpose.

We will be honest with you, because you will figure it out anyway. This is a fast, native sketch tool for laying out repairs. It is not built to produce stamped, engineered construction drawings, and it is not trying to be.
What you need
Built-in Site Sketch Tool
A dedicated drawing subscription
Quick pier layout on the property
Built-in Site Sketch Tool Yes, on a satellite image
Dedicated drawing subscription Yes
Saved to the job automatically
Built-in Site Sketch Tool Yes, in the same platform
Dedicated drawing subscription Export and re-file by hand
Foundation-specific symbols
Built-in Site Sketch Tool 30+ built in
Dedicated drawing subscription Varies
Separate monthly seat cost
Built-in Site Sketch Tool Included in OblyssPro
Dedicated drawing subscription A per-user bill on top
Full engineered / stamped drawings
Built-in Site Sketch Tool Not the goal
Dedicated drawing subscription Better fit
The questions estimators and owners ask

Frequently asked questions

Do I need a separate drawing app if I use OblyssPro?
For everyday pier and drainage layouts, no. The Site Sketch Tool is built into the platform, so you sketch, measure, and save without another login or another monthly seat. If your firm also produces stamped, engineered construction drawings, you would keep a specialty tool for that, and OblyssPro connects to ArcSite so those drawings and line items still land on the job.
You paste the property address and the tool pulls in a satellite image of that lot to use as your drawing background. You are placing piers and symbols on the real footprint of the house, which makes the layout more accurate and easier for the homeowner and the crew to read than a freehand rectangle.
More than thirty symbols built specifically for foundation work: push piers, helical piers, and slab piers, plus beams, crack indicators, grade arrows, sump pumps, drainage lines, French drains, and more. There is also freehand drawing for anything the palette does not cover, so you are never stuck.
Yes. One-click starter templates for slab, pier-and-beam, and basement foundations give you a common shape to build on, so you adjust an existing layout to the house in front of you rather than drawing every plan from a blank canvas.
Into the sketch gallery on the job, right alongside the estimate, contract, and field photos. You can create and manage multiple sketches per job from the job detail page, and anyone on the team with access to the job can pull them up. You can also export any sketch as a PNG for a proposal or a permit packet.
The sketch tool is part of the same connected platform your crew uses in the field, so a layout drawn on site saves to the same job the office is looking at. Bring your exact field workflow to a demo and we will show you how it fits the way your estimators and techs work.
No, and we say so plainly. It is a fast drawing surface for laying out repairs, not a substitute for stamped, engineered construction documents. For the layout work most repair jobs actually need, it keeps the drawing in the same place as the job. For engineered drawings, keep your specialty tool and connect it.
It matters more than it sounds. When the drawing lives on the job, there is one version everyone trusts: the estimator, the crew, the office, and the customer file all see the same layout. That is the difference between three copies that disagree and one record that is right.
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Stop paying for a drawing app that does not know the job.

Book a 30-minute demo and watch a pier layout go from a pasted address to a saved sketch on the job, without leaving the platform.
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How it works