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Drawing takeoffs

Measure on the drawing.Transfer with confidence.

Measure steel, ductwork, walls and floors on PDF drawings, and mark up service penetrations. Confirmed items transfer into the calculators after a preview, so nothing changes without your review.

Architectural floor plan with highlighted services

Drawing takeoffs

Measure on the drawing, not on paper

  1. 01

    Upload the drawing set

    Up to 100 PDFs and 2,000 pages per project. The first file opens as soon as it uploads.

  2. 02

    Set the scale once

    A clear printed title-block scale is applied for you. Otherwise pick one of 16 presets, calibrate, or add a viewport for details.

  3. 03

    Trace, count and confirm

    Trace length, Count steel lengths or Trace surface, then review each row in the register and confirm it.

Steel structure measured from drawings
16 scale presetsOriginal PDFs never changedSource page on every row

Four takeoffs, one workspace

Steel, duct, surfaces and penetrations

  1. 01 · Steel & duct

    Lengths and counts

    Trace members or count them with set lengths. Insert Rise / Drop adds height at a control point, so 10 m with a 500 mm rise is 10.5 m.

    Steel structure measured from drawings
  2. 02 · Walls & floors

    Net areas

    Trace a surface and add exclusions for openings. Each surface shows gross, excluded and net square metres.

    Cable tray penetrating a fire-rated wall, with markers
  3. 03 · Penetrations

    Two registers

    Defect Reports record defect, barrier and service. Service Plans record barrier and service, with the FRL on the barrier. IDs are never reused.

    Architectural floor plan with highlighted services
  4. 04 · Transfer

    Into the calculators

    Choose a destination schedule, check the preview and add to schedule. If the drawing changes later, Update linked rows brings the calculator up to date.

    Structural steel I-beam with fire protection

Tools on the drawing

Find it, mark it, sign it

Visual Search

On Service Plans, box one symbol and search the page or every document. You tick the matches to add as barriers or services.

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish

Text on scanned drawings

OCR adds a searchable text layer to scans without changing the original PDF.

D-0001 · B-0001 · S-0001

Registers with lasting IDs

Every defect, barrier and service gets a sequential ID that is never reused.

  • Stamp
  • Call-out
  • Legend
  • Signatures
  • Initial Pages

Markups and sign-off

Stamps, call-outs, legends, signatures, and Initial Pages to initial every page in one go.

Outputs

What you take away

  • Steel structure measured from drawings

    PDFFull markup or markups only

    Marked-up drawings with a legend of marks and lengths

  • Register and matrix documents

    XLSXConfirmed, unconfirmed or all items

    Register spreadsheets

  • Cable tray penetrating a fire-rated wall, with markers

    PDFDefect, barrier and service IDs

    Passive Fire Matrix: location, FRL, substrate, orientation and service size

Rectangular duct with fire protection material

Questions & answers

About takeoffs

No. You trace, count and calibrate. Visual Search proposes matching symbols, and you choose which to add.

Only when the PDF has a clear printed scale. Otherwise choose a preset, calibrate against a known distance, or add a viewport.

Yes. OCR recognises English, French, German and Spanish text. Calibration still needs a scan that isn't distorted.

No. Originals are kept as uploaded, and every export is a copy.

No. Surface areas stay in the takeoff. Steel and rectangular duct items transfer to the calculators.

Take off your next drawing set in CLASSIFIRE.

Measure on the drawing. Transfer with confidence.