TakeoffCraft Browser edition 0.7

TakeoffCraft — quantity takeoff and estimating

Measure the drawings. Count the work. Price the job.

  1. Open plans (or drop them here). They open on this computer; nothing is uploaded.
  2. Give each sheet a scale: pick a Preset, or Calibrate on a dimension you know.
  3. Make an item under Items (linear, area or count), then click on the sheet to take it off.
  4. Add costs and an assembly to the item; the quantities and the job total below update as you go.
  5. Save takeoff keeps everything in a project file that reopens on top of the same PDFs.

Quantities

TakeoffCraft settings

These settings are only for TakeoffCraft, and you can change them only here, in the app.

Menus, keys and mouse

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Feet and inches

How lengths read on the sheet, in the panels and in the status bar. Only the display is rounded: quantities, costs and exports are worked out from the exact lengths (exports show 1/16").

New items

Every item you make from now on starts with this waste. You can still change it per item, and items you already have keep theirs.

Auto count

Where the Match slider is when a search finishes. Lower finds more look-alikes for you to reject; higher offers fewer. 75% is the start.

Drawing

Door openings and gaps up to this wide count as closed when the Room tool fills a room. Wider than your widest door lets a room run into the next one.

While you measure or calibrate, a point near a line of the PDF jumps to its end, its midpoint, a crossing, or the nearest point on it, and a marker shows which. F3 or Snap in the status bar turns it on and off. Scanned sheets have no lines to snap to.

Runs, outlines and cut-outs then go at 0°, 45°, 90° or 135° from the last point; hold Shift to click at any angle. Arc points and circles are never snapped.

Corner indicator

In the 3D check view only. The view cube sits at the top right: click a face, edge or corner to look from there, drag it to orbit, drag the compass ring to turn. The axis icon is a small X, Y, Z marker at the bottom left. The flat sheet has neither.

Layout

Workspace

Every app that has the workspace you pick opens in it; the others keep their toolbar and panels. Your toolbar style, menus and keys stay as they are.

Work environments. Save your whole setup under a name (the layout, menu style and keys, toolbar, panels and My tools, for every app) and switch between setups. The theme and the language stay as they are.

Lost a toolbar, a menu or a panel?

Puts the toolbar (order, lock and buttons), the panels, the screen mode and the menu style back to how TakeoffCraft starts. Your theme, language, sizes and TakeoffCraft's own settings stay as they are.

Theme

The theme applies to every CadCraft app and the site.

Language

The language applies to every CadCraft app. The app reloads to change it.

Units

Global settings: each app can have its own measurement settings and defaults too.

Switch a unit on to see it in the unit lists. The star marks the default for new drawings, measures and items. These choices are the same in every app in this browser.

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A file keeps its own unit (a drawing's units, a project's feet or meters), and that unit stays in its list even when it is turned off here.

Hardware specs

Sharing your hardware specs allows us to build more efficient engines. The information is aggregated and not associated with your account: the graphics card, processor cores, memory and screen size, the browser and system family, and the app — no files, no name, no address.

First-time tours

Off: no app starts its tour by itself. Each app's own settings can still turn its tour off, or take it again.

Screen

Browsers allow full screen only after a click or key press, so it starts on your first click in the drawing.

Toolbar

Arrange: drag tools within their group, and drag a group by its name.

Right-click the toolbar (or long-press it) for Arrange, Lock and Reset.

Sizes and panels

The bars, toolbars, panels and dialogs of TakeoffCraft, bigger or smaller; the drawing keeps its own zoom. Panel text size works on top of it.

Compact tightens the row heights, panel padding, toolbar buttons and panel text of TakeoffCraft, so more fits on the screen. A touch screen keeps its large targets either way.

You can also drag a panel's inner edge. Double-click the edge to put it back.

Panels

Drag a panel by its name to dock it left, right or at the bottom, or drop it over the drawing to float it. A new window can go on your other screen. Reset layout puts every panel back where it started.