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Plan Takeoff & Measuring

Tap one symbol, get the rest counted, check it, and price it off the drawing.

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Plan Takeoff · live screen

Load the planA PDF, a photo of a drawing, or a DWG file straight from the builder.

Set the scaleTrace one known dimension once and the page knows what a metre is.

It finds the repeatsTap one symbol and it marks the others like it across the page, ready for you to check.

The quote is quantities, and the quantities come from an hour with a scale rule.

Counting every downlight on a plan, walking a boundary with a wheel, working out the paintable area of a room less its windows. It is the slowest part of quoting and the easiest to get wrong, and it always happens at night, after the day you spent on the tools.

Why it is worth it.

Quote the same day you visit

The measuring happens on the drawing at the kitchen table instead of on site with a wheel and a notepad.

The number is the number

Areas come out of the geometry rather than out of a mental estimate, and openings you mark are taken out rather than forgotten.

Nothing gets counted twice

What you measured is what goes on the quote. There is no retyping step between the plan and the price.

It measures the drawing. You decide what to measure.

Scale the page once by tracing a dimension you know. After that every mark you make is a real quantity: tap to count, trace to get metres, draw to get square metres. Give a wall a height and mark its windows and the paintable area comes out with the openings already taken off.

It drafts the count. You sign it off.

Tap one downlight and it pins the rest like it. What comes back is a draft, not an answer: the pins it found stay dashed until you have been over the page, taken out the ones it got wrong and added the ones it missed. Nothing reaches a quote until you confirm it.

What it looks like in the app.

Every screen below is the shipped product, not a drawing.

/01Measuring

It measures the drawing. You decide what to measure.

One calibration per page, not per measurement
Openings are subtracted, not estimated around
Add waste and the chargeable quantity is what reaches the quote

Measuring

/02Honest about what it is

It drafts the count. You sign it off.

Detected marks are dashed until you confirm them
It misses some and finds some that are not there. Reviewing is the job
Every quantity on the quote is one you signed off

Honest about what it is

The specifics.

Each one is a thing the product does, not a benefit statement.

Tap one, it finds the rest

Mark one symbol and the matcher pins the others like it across the page for you to check.

A review step you cannot skip

Detected pins stay dashed until you confirm the page, so no quantity reaches a quote unchecked.

Runs in metres

Trace a boundary, a cable route or a fence line and get its length off the scaled page.

Areas in square metres

Draw a region for a slab, a floor or a roof plane and get its area.

Wall area, less the openings

Give a run a height and mark the doors and windows; the paintable or renderable area comes out with them subtracted.

A waste percentage

Add waste to a measured quantity and the chargeable figure is what carries onto the quote.

Your own item library

Items you build up are saved and offered again on the next plan.

What it will not do

The count is a DRAFT, not an answer. Tapping one symbol finds repeats of it, and a vision model names the symbol and prunes the matches. But it misses some, and it pins some that are not there. Detected marks stay dashed until you review the page and confirm them, and reviewing is a real part of the job rather than a formality.
It measures geometry: counts, metres, square metres and cubic metres. It does not convert those into litres of paint, cubic metres of mix, or lengths of cable, and it does not order materials from a supplier.
Scale accuracy depends on the drawing. A plan that is not to scale, or a photograph taken at an angle, will measure as it is drawn.
Takeoffs are metered: five jobs a month on Solo, ten on Crew and fifteen on Office and Builder, then $4 a job after that.

Before you ask.

It drafts the count. Tap one symbol and it finds the repeats of it across the page, naming the symbol as it goes. What comes back is a draft: those pins stay dashed until you go over the page, remove any it got wrong, add any it missed and confirm. It will not put a quantity on a quote that you have not signed off.

Counts, run lengths in metres, areas in square metres, volumes, and wall area worked out as run length times height with the doors and windows you mark taken out. You can add a waste percentage, and the chargeable quantity is what carries onto the quote.