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Takeoff software for subcontractors who bid a lot of work

You get the full set and only need your scope. Find your sheets, count your symbols automatically, measure the rest, and price it with your own crews and labor rates.

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Auto Count on an office lighting plan: every matching light fixture highlighted and the review panel with matches to check
Auto Count review panel with the sample symbol, vector mode, rotation search, a sensitivity bar and match cards including turned fixtures

Counts

Count devices and fixtures without clicking each one

Box one symbol and Auto Count finds the others, turned and mirrored copies included. Review the matches and create the count in one step.

  • Page, whole set or chosen sheets
  • One item per printed tag
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Find Text searching the words printed on a floor plan, with the hits highlighted on the sheet

Your scope

Find your scope in a big set

Search the printed text for your keynotes and tags, name the set from its title blocks, and turn a schedule into items with Extract Schedule.

  • Find Text across every sheet
  • Extract Schedule for door, window and fixture schedules
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Wage Calculator review for a commercial open shop project, with the location adjustment for labor, material and equipment and burdened craft rates

Labor

Price labor with your crews and the job's rates

Crews follow the classification of what you measured. Rates come from the Wage Calculator for the project's location and wage determination, or from your own data.

  • Open shop, union or prevailing wage
  • Override any rate for the job
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Crews settings listing the crews suggested for each classification, custom crews and hidden crews

Crews

Your crews, set once for the whole office

Build your own crews, hide the ones you never use, and let IntelCost suggest the right crew for each scope you measure.

  • Custom crews for your trade
  • Crew cost per man-hour and per crew-hour
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Estimating sidebar with reports and a bid summary: sales tax on material, overhead, contingency, profit and bond to the bid total

Your number

Send the GC a clean number

Mark up to your bid total with tax, overhead, profit and bond, and export the estimate to Excel with its bid summary.

  • Bid summary sheet in the export
  • Quantities only when the GC wants to compare
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How it works

  1. 1

    Find your sheets

    Name the set and search it for your scope.

  2. 2

    Count and measure

    Auto Count symbols, measure runs and areas.

  3. 3

    Price with your crews

    Labor at the job's rates, material and equipment, then export.

Frequently asked questions

Can I count light fixtures or receptacles automatically?

Yes. Box one symbol and Auto Count finds every match on the page or across the set, including rotated and mirrored copies. You review the matches before the count is created.

Can I send my quantities to a general contractor?

Yes. Export the estimate to Excel, or a quantities-only report without your prices.

Can I take off only my scope from a full drawing set?

Yes. Search the set for your keynotes and tags with Find Text, measure only the sheets you need, and file your items under your own scopes.

Can I use union or prevailing wage rates?

Yes. The Wage Calculator supports Open Shop, Union (CBA) and federal or state prevailing wage for each project.

Features for this work

Bring your next bid set.

Upload the drawings, set the scale and measure your first item in the same sitting. Your projects live in the cloud, so the whole team opens the same set from any computer.

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