Takeoff
Measurement off the sheet, into your template
- Counts, linear metres and areas
- Your own template, not ours
- Every figure sourced to a sheet
Why it is hard
Takeoff is slow because measuring is slow, not because estimating is
Counts
Doors, windows, fixtures and any symbol you can point at on a legend, tallied per room and per sheet.Lengths
Wall runs, skirting, railing and joinery measured along traced geometry at drawing scale.Areas
Floor, ceiling and finish areas from room polygons, split by hatch pattern where the finish changes.Into your sheet
Written into your existing template or BoQ layout, so the numbers arrive where the estimator expects them.
How it runs
Specialist models, chained
- Stage 1
Calibrate the drawing
Scale is read from the sheet and checked against a known dimension, because every number downstream depends on it being right.Verified scale - Stage 2
Detect and measure
Symbols are counted, wall runs traced, room polygons closed and measured. Counts are kept per room, not just per sheet.Quantities with locations - Stage 3
Reconcile against schedules
Where the set has door, window or finish schedules, counts are checked against them and differences reported.Checked quantities - Stage 4
Fill the template
Values are written into your takeoff sheet or BoQ structure, each cell carrying a reference to the sheet and location it came from.Populated takeoff, CSV or Excel
What comes back
Data, with a trail back to the sheet
- Counts per element type, per room and per sheet
- Linear measurements for walls, skirting and joinery
- Floor and finish areas, split by hatch where relevant
- Your template populated, not a new format to learn
- A source reference on every figure
This is our base model — already trained on floor plans, not yet on yours. For a project it is fine-tuned on your drawings, against a target you set, on the fields you actually use. How fine-tuning works.
Start here
See it on a drawing of your own
- One sheet is enough — PDF, DXF or a scan
- Back in about 2 business days, with an annotated overlay
- No call required, NDA on request
Send us one sheet
We run it through our floor plan models and send back the extracted data with an annotated overlay, so you can see what comes off your own drawings before anyone books a call.
- Back in about 2 business days
- PDF, DXF or a scan
- NDA on request
FAQ
Questions, answered
The measuring part goes from hours or days to minutes on a sheet the models have been tuned for. The checking does not disappear, and it should not — an estimator still reviews the output before it goes into a bid. What changes is that they start from a filled sheet instead of an empty one.
That is the normal case, and it is what fine-tuning is for. A template symbol from your legend is enough to start; a labelled sample of your sheets is what makes it reliable.
No. It fills in what the estimator would otherwise measure by hand, in the format your existing tools already read. Pricing, rates and judgement stay where they are.
Get in touch
Tell us what is on your drawings
Describe the sheets you get and what you need off them. We will tell you what our models already handle, what needs fine-tuning on your drawings, and what is not worth automating at all.
- Reply time
- Within 1 business day
Would rather show than tell? Send one sheet for a free analysis