The takeoff workspace

Three stages, across the top

Before the panels, the bar under the project name: Takeoff → Quote Builder → Quote. That's the whole product in order. You measure the wall in Takeoff, design and price it in Quote Builder, and send it from Quote. The project name carries a status chip beside it — Needs Review on the sample here.

The three panels

• Pages, left — every page in the set as a thumbnail, labeled PAGE 1 | P1 and so on, under the document's name (Project Documents › Submission Site Plan).
• The viewer, center — the page you're working on, with a page counter above it. Each page has a card for its Page Title and Scale.
• Takeoff, right — each wall you've taken off, with a count beneath the heading: 2 specifications. Build Quote sits at the foot.

A rail at the far left shows or hides each part: Chat, Canvas (the pages and viewer) and Specifications (the Takeoff panel).

The toolbar

Along the bottom of the viewer, in three groups:

• A grid toggle — the switch on its own at the left, which lays a grid over the page.
• Cursor, Undo, Redo.
• Scale tool — hotkey S — and Measurement, with a chevron beside it.

Measurement stays disabled until the page has a scale. Hover it before you've set one and it tells you so: Set scale first to measure. The chevron opens the rest of the markup tools — Measurement, Highlighter, Pen, Comment, Eraser.

The takeoff tools themselves are armed from a specification, not from here — see Plan view takeoff.

Specifications

Each wall you take off becomes a specification in the right-hand panel — the envelope Quote Builder will design into. One wall, one specification. Click a specification's name to rename it in place.

A specification holds more than the outline. Under the name sits a Plan View chart of the wall, with Wall Envelope and Embedment plotted against the wall's length, then Wall Measurements:

Below that, Points expands into the takeoff itself — a Station / Elevation table, one row per point you placed. This is the wall in its rawest form, and it is worth opening when a number downstream looks wrong.