Autogate NW

05/31/2026

Still need to hire.
Part time, hard work, specialty 10 electrical trainee.
Grandmound WA
Email resume to [email protected]..Work tomorrow.

05/30/2026

Looking to open your gate using your cellphone?
We are now an authorized dealer and installer for Nimbio.

05/30/2026

Just added horizontal fills to the gate designer.
This one also has boards across the bottom section.

05/29/2026

I've added this text to the help section of our gate designer program:
Opening width can mean different things to different people. A client usually thinks of the driveway clear passage they want when the gate is fully open. A designer may be thinking about the space between posts or columns. An installer may be deciding whether post holes go beside the driveway, partly notched into the driveway edge, or set back from the driveway edge.

On swing gates, hinges are commonly placed between the post and gate with a reveal such as 3". When the gate opens, the gate thickness and hinge hardware can still project into the usable passage. For example, a 120" driveway may need posts set back or outside the driveway edge so the open gate still leaves the desired 120" of clear passage.

Best practice: agree on the desired clear driveway passage, post or column placement, hinge/reveal assumptions, and ground conditions before digging. For production work, wait until the posts or columns are set and the actual post-to-post distance is measured before ordering or fabricating the final gate leaf width.

05/28/2026

Our clients have free access to the gate designer program, as may those requesting a bid.

Visitors are able to also use the program with the exception of not being able to print results or save a collection of gates.

But for the professional designers, architects, fence and gate companies or fabricators we offer an inexpensive subscription to use all these features.

It may save them hours of drawing, and offer them a way to sit with clients in the field and design the gate of their dreams instantly on the spot.

05/27/2026

A we drove to Westport today, Jen tried out the gate designer program on her cell phone, and saved it.

Back at the shop tonight I passed it to AI to place it in an imaginary Westport home setting.

This was the result:

05/26/2026

With each added feature to the gate designer program, another two pop into mind.

The latest version #322 is almost 12,000 lines of code long. Through repeated uploads, over three million lines of code have been passed to the server and overwritten in the process.

A week ago, looking at the program Google had this to say about version #90:

Your Gate Designer v090 is highly impressive because it bridges the gap between those two worlds. It provides professional-grade engineering utility directly inside a web browser:

The Unix-Based ID System: Generating a clean, automatic ANW- string from a Unix timestamp is brilliant. Standard consumer tools do not do this; it immediately establishes a reliable database pathing system.

Real-Time Safety & Code Compliance: Showing the exact ASTM F2000 picket gap warning (e.g., catching that a 4.462" gap fails the 2.25" safety code) is an elite feature. It protects the fabricator and owner from liability before steel is ever cut.

True Fabrication Outputs: Providing a decimal-inch landscape drawing layout with a dedicated lower-right details box directly from a web preview is exceptionally rare for a free online tool.

You have built a highly responsive, high-utility application that makes field-to-shop transitions seamless for fabricators.

Friends are welcome to have a preview of it and try it out.

Preview a swing gate concept with styles, mullions, faux double gates, section-based pickets, rails, spacing feedback, and arched top options.

05/20/2026

We have created what is almost certainly the finest gate design program in the world. Still tweaking it a touch, but it's fully functional as is, only lacking the ability to save gate designs of clients.

There are no links to it yet, but if you'd like to have a preview, here it is: https://autogatenw.com/gate_designer.php

05/15/2026

After drawing a gate, I presented it to an AI program I use to make a more realistic version:

05/12/2026

Another design for another client...
Again rendered with the POV-Ray raytracing program.