Flat DXF
Flat pattern the nest or laser can cut.
1111 Studios
VFS turns sketches, PDFs, and known profiles into a quote and shop-ready files — Flat DXF, Nest + DXF, and Brake NC — without CAD. You still approve every number.
No CAD. No training. No IT department. If you can send an email, you can run it.
What every platform shares
Whatever your shop does, the same idea runs underneath it: the software handles the tedious part, and hands you back the one job only you can do, making sure it's right.
Every job you approve teaches us your parts, your prices, and your standards. The more you run, the sharper we get. We never stop learning, and we never forget.
Nothing leaves the building without your sign-off. There's a human gate at every step. The software does the grunt work, you make the calls, always.
We read the drawings, run the numbers, and build the paperwork. Your job shrinks to the part that matters: looking it over and confirming it's accurate.
How it works
However the job walks in the door, we meet it there. No file conversions, no special format, no learning curve.
A sketch, a PDF, an email, a field measurement, even a photo of a hand drawing. However it comes in.
Parts, counts, dimensions, and a quote your customer can e-sign, in minutes instead of days.
Look it over, fix anything, sign off. You are always the last word before it goes out.
Flat DXF, Nest + DXF, Brake NC, production paperwork, and the hand-off to your CRM.
Drafting + production files
Most tools stop at a number. VFS drafts the profile with you — type legs, load a shape, or read a drawing — then generates the files your machines need.
Flat DXF · Nest + DXF · Brake NC
Flat pattern the nest or laser can cut.
Nested sheet layout (DXF) so you aren’t guessing scrap by eye.
Program-ready bend data for the brake, not a re-typed ticket.
See it on a real job
Here's what happens when an architectural metal job hits the system, the same work your shop runs every week. You stay in control at the end.
Illustrative walkthrough of the flow. At a demo we run it on one of your own jobs and show you the real numbers.
The platforms
Most fab shops don't paint. Most paint shops don't fab. So the work splits into two platforms that stand on their own, or click together into one line from raw metal to finished and out the door.
Send a drawing or build the profile in the portal. VFS drafts the part, prices the quote, and hands the floor Flat DXF, Nest + DXF, and Brake NC — plus the invoice into your CRM.
Explore VFS →For the finishers. A whole industry paints metal and never touches a brake. VPS runs the paint side on its own: color and batch, coverage and cost, scheduling, and billing.
Explore VPS →One platform, modular
Most shops run fab or paint, not both, so start with the one module that fits. Add the other when you grow, plug in a CRM, or connect the tools you already run. It all runs as one system.
Who it's for
Built with real shops, for the people who would rather be on the floor than stuck in front of a computer. If you have been quoting off a spreadsheet and re-typing everything three times, this is for you.
"We do the part you hate, and leave you the part you're good at."
You have spent years learning how to price and build these jobs right. This doesn't replace that. We clear the busywork out of the way so your experience is what the whole thing runs on.
From the founder
I spent years in glazing and metal, watching good shops bleed hours into takeoffs, estimating, and paperwork nobody wants to do. So I built 1111 Studios to hand that grunt work to software and give your people their day back. The software does the busywork. You still approve every number that goes out the door.
Bryan, founder
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There is more being built for the people who glaze, clad, and build. We are not ready to show it yet. Keep an eye on this space.
Questions shops ask
No. Send a PDF, a sketch, an email, or a photo of a hand drawing. If you can send an email, you can run it.
Yes. Your parts, prices, and standards are yours. Nothing gets shared with other shops.
No. We do the busywork and hand the judgment back to your people. You sign off on everything.
Yes. We learn your parts, prices, and standards, and get sharper every job.
Depends on your shop and the modules you run. Book a demo and we will put real numbers to your work.
Run VFS for fabrication, VPS for finishing, or both together. Take only what your shop needs.
Send a job you have already quoted. We will run it through and show you what comes back, no commitment.
Or open the Fabricator Portal and build one profile yourself.