Drawing sets and revisions
Upload full multi-page sets, organized by drawing set and revision, with the current set marked.
Features
What EC Takeoff does today
From the drawing set to the bid and on to the job. Built around one idea: the software counts, you review. Every quantity stays traceable back to the sheet it came from, and the bid-day checklist shows any counted row not yet reviewed.
Drawings
Viewer and sheet finder
Page thumbnails, zoom and fit-width, and a sheet finder: type E2-203 or "level 3 lighting" and go straight there.
Addenda
Compare two sets and see what changed in the takeoff, sheet by sheet. A partial addendum counts each sheet at its latest issue, not just the sheets it reissued.
Automatic reading
Title blocks
Sheet number, title, discipline, revision and scale, read per page.
Sheet classification
Floor plans, schedules, legends, risers and details told apart, so counts never pick up schedule rows or title-block text.
Schedules and legend
Panel schedules (breakers and circuits), the luminaire schedule and the legend's symbols and descriptions.
Takeoff
Legend symbol sweep
Each symbol is learned from the legend and found on every floor plan: receptacles, switches, sensors, data outlets, fixtures.
Home runs and branch wiring
Circuits traced to their panels, with EMT or MC, wire sized from the breaker, long runs upsized for voltage drop, boxes and supports.
Panels and feeders
Panelboards with their breakers, and the feeders between them, from the panel schedules.
Linear fixtures
Every linear fixture tag is marked on its sheet, ready to measure with the segmented-run tool.
Review and approve
Every row a sync adds or changes waits for your approval, and a checklist says what is left before the takeoff is complete.
Estimating
Your cost catalog
Unit costs and labor hours carried from job to job, assemblies, price history, and supplier price sheets imported from CSV.
Estimate grid
Quantities follow the takeoff. Waste, markup and labor markup per line, bulk edits, paste a column from a spreadsheet, undo.
Job costs
Supervision, labor factors, lifts, permits and the rest, from your usual list, in hours or dollars.
Versions and alternates
Save a version, compare it, restore its prices, and price alternates beside the base bid.
Bidding
Supplier quotes
Request quotes by package, level them side by side and carry the best one into the bid.
Proposal
A PDF on your letterhead: the price, inclusions, exclusions, alternates and unit prices, and a bid-day checklist.
Bid results
Won or lost, the next bidder and what was left on the table; win rate and workload on the dashboard.
After the win
Purchase orders
Built from what is left to order, by vendor, system or floor, as PDF or CSV.
Change orders
Priced at the bid's own rates with your markups, and added to the contract once approved.
Exports
The estimate, a budget by cost code, a material order by floor and an estimate summary PDF.