This guide walks through designing a school or campus building with the Snaptrude Agent, from site and brief to a presentation-ready scheme. The agent can analyze your site, build the program from your brief, plan the building envelope, create massing, lay out classrooms and labs, add doors, windows and furniture, and draw the site plan with drop-off and parking. You can use it for a new K-12 school, a university teaching building or an addition to an existing campus.

Start by giving the agent the location and asking it to study the site. It can import the site, read context and summarize constraints with sources.

Try: "Import the site at [address] with terrain and neighborhood buildings, then run a site analysis: access, sun path, noise from the main road, and anything that affects a K-8 school."

Tip: You can also run Analyze Site from the agent dropdown in Program Mode to add the analysis to the P1 - Site Analysis sheet.

Attach the RFP, educational specification or a spreadsheet of spaces, and ask the agent to turn it into a program. It writes the program into Program Mode, grouped by department.

Try: "Read the attached educational spec and create the program in Program Mode: 24 general classrooms at 85 m2, 4 science labs, a library, gym, cafeteria, admin suite and support spaces. Group them by department."

Check the program sheet in Program Mode (it opens in its own browser tab) and adjust counts or areas before you design.

Try: "Using the site setbacks, create a buildable envelope, then mass a two-story school with a classroom wing facing south, a separate gym and cafeteria block near the entrance, and a courtyard."

Try: "Give me three massing options as separate design proposals: a linear bar, an L-shape around a courtyard, and a compact two-wing scheme. Keep the total area within 5% of the program."

Tip: Compare the options with the Areas tab in the right panel, and switch between them with the Proposal dropdown in the left panel.

If you're working from existing campus plans, bring them in first: click the project name, choose Import, and pick CAD Files (.dwg), PDF or Images. Then ask the agent to trace them.

Try: "Trace the imported PDF of the existing school's ground floor and create the walls, doors and windows so I can design the new wing against it."

Try: "Lay out the classroom wing on both floors: double-loaded 2.4 m corridor, classrooms along the south side, toilets and storage next to the stairs, and a teacher workroom on each floor."

Try: "Place the science labs together on level 2 with a shared prep room between each pair."

Try: "Convert the scheme to BIM. Add a door to every classroom from the corridor, large windows on the south facades with sill height 900 mm, and two exit stairs at the ends of the wing."

Try: "Furnish the classrooms with 28 student desks and a teacher station each, lab benches in the science labs, and tables in the cafeteria."

Try: "Create the site plan: bus drop-off loop in front of the main entrance, separate parent drop-off, 60 staff parking spaces, a playground and a sports field."

Switch to Present Mode and ask the agent to put the drawings on sheets, or do it yourself with + New Sheet and the Views tab.

Try: "Place the ground floor plan, level 2 plan and a 3D view on this sheet, and add an area table by department."

Use Auto Diagram for program and adjacency diagrams, and click an image on a sheet to open AI Inspirations for renders. Export with Export as PDF, PNG or JPG.

Note: The agent gives you a strong starting point, not a finished, code-checked design. Review every result: check dimensions, clearances, egress and local code requirements with your own professional judgment before you rely on it.