Takeoff and measurement
Measure drawings the way you check them
A fast, keyboard-friendly takeoff surface built for production measurement: calibrated scale, direction-locked linear runs, instant completion, and a quantities panel that always agrees with the canvas.
Production measurement tools
Linear, with axis lock
Click to place vertices, drag to trace a curve, and lock segments to the x and y axes for orthogonal walls — or hold Shift for a temporary lock. Break a run and continue it elsewhere; the parts still total as one measurement.
Areas four ways
Polygon, rectangle and ellipse tools for rooms and slabs, plus freeform tracing for irregular shapes. Areas display live as you draw, in real units.
Count
Mark sockets, sanitaryware, doors — anything enumerable — and the schedule counts itself. Counts need no scale calibration, so they work the moment a drawing loads.
Assemblies
Measure once and generate a full parametric material schedule — a cavity wall measurement becomes bricks, blocks, ties, insulation and labour as BoQ lines.
AI assistance under your control
Plan analysis
Ask the assistant to analyse a plan and it proposes measurements — walls, rooms, fittings — as pending suggestions drawn in amber on the sheet.
Explicit acceptance
A suggestion contributes nothing to any quantity until you accept it. Accept, edit or reject — each decision is recorded with your name against it.
Confidence shown
Every AI suggestion carries a confidence indicator, so you know where to look hardest. RICS professional judgement stays where it belongs — with the surveyor.
Engineering rigour behind the canvas
Geometry stored in drawing coordinates
Measurements are stored against the original PDF page in true drawing space — never screen pixels. Zoom, resize or switch devices and every measurement stays exactly where you put it.
Calibration is separate from geometry
Scale is calibrated per page — from a known dimension or an AI title-block read — and applied when quantities are computed. Recalibrating corrects every quantity without touching a single measurement.
Decimal quantities only
Every derived length, area and count is computed with decimal arithmetic, not floating point, so the figure in the BoQ reconciles with the figure on the drawing to the last decimal place.
Nothing hard-deleted
Deleting a measurement soft-deletes it with a full undo history. The audit trail behind an issued tender is never destroyed.
Challenge any number and walk the chain back to its source.
Next: from quantities to a priced bill
Takeoff quantities flow into NRM2 bills with full provenance — no re-keying, no broken links.