On-Screen Takeoff® for Electrical Bid Manager™

Features

Start estimating with the most powerful takeoff and bidding tool available.

Increase Accuracy

• View color-coded drawings to identify conditions and their quantities
• Takeoff the typical area one time, and by design, extend the quantities to all the appropriate individual areas with the new Typical Group Process.
• Save multiple hours of exhausting plan review with the overlay feature. When comparing two versions of a drawing, deleted items are in red and added items are in blue.

Convenient and Flexible

• Eliminate manually summarizing takeoff. Benefit from conditions itemized by area and totaled automatically, with filtering capabilities.
• Open details, sections, and elevation with the secondary view, and see a floor plan simultaneously.
• Use the layers feature when completing a takeoff of multiple divisions of work to visibly turn conditions on or off the plan image while concentrating on certain scopes of work.
• Increase communication efficiency by copying and pasting plans with takeoff, notes and annotations to submit as an RFI.

Bid More in Less Time

• Eliminate an entire manual takeoff process. As you highlight marked images, precise quantities are automatically measured. “If it’s colored, it’s counted.”
• Instantly calculate up to three different quantities per condition, chosen from multiple formulas.
• Copy and paste conditions and/or takeoff objects between base bids, alternates, change orders, and or between different jobs.  If takeoffs between floors are similar, but the conditions are not identical, use the Duplicate and Reassign feature create a new set of similar conditions. 
• Produce bids in Electrical Bid Manager™ with the On-Screen Takeoff interactive link to increase your productivity and eliminate manual entry errors while instantly pricing your bid as you complete your takeoff.
• Create an export link directly with your Microsoft Excel templates through On-Screen Takeoff.

Communicate Better

• View several file formats that other contractors or architects may send you. (tiff, cal, osp, cpc, pdf, tif, pln, plt, dgn, drw, dxf, dwg, dwf, cgm, hpg, me, pct, bla, & ose)
• “Overlay” an image (addendum/ change order) on top of the original image immediately reflecting any plan changes.
• Display image legends that accurately define what colors and patterns represent a particular condition allowing for the condition quantities to be displayed if enabled.
• Create change orders and alternates allowing for easy modifications when scope of work has been changed.

Stay Organized

• Save standard conditions in a style library for use in future bids.
• Create layers that allow you to sort and separate all viewable objects on the screen and easily understand what the takeoff involves.

Additional Features

• Point-to-Point measurements
  
• Measures multiple lengths at once
  
• Easy-to-use … no training needed!
  
• Standalone system … no additional CAD software required
  
• Streamline your takeoff process by completing your measurements and calculations as you mark up your drawings, allowing you to generate faster, more accurate takeoffs?
• Simply put... On-Screen Takeoff helps you win more profitable bids.
• Software interface is straight forward and intuitive to use.
• Efficiently view and archive hundreds of plans. Group by project. Powerful plan search tool

System Requirements

• Windows XP, Vista, 7
• Processor speed 1.5 GHz or greater
• Memory 1.0 GIG
• Hard Drive 200 MB free space