Tutorials TakeoffCraft help Walkthroughs
Read quantities and the estimate
Use the Quantities table by item and by sheet, the job total, highlighting, and the Incomplete warning.
Written for TakeoffCraft 0.3. The same help is inside the app: press F1.
The Quantities table at the bottom of the window is your live estimate. It changes the moment you draw, delete, rescale or edit a rate. Quantities are never stored; they are measured again from the marks every time, so they cannot drift out of date.
By item
Choose By item (the default). Each item has a row, and each of its assembly components a row under it.
| Column | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Item | Name, with the item's color. "+(n) unscaled" means some marks are on sheets with no scale. |
| Quantity | The measured total in the item's unit (components: the formula result). |
| Unit | LF, m, SF, SY, m², EA, or the component's unit. |
| Waste % | Typed here or in the item editor. |
| With waste | Quantity × (1 + waste). |
| Material/unit, Labor/unit | Rates; you can type them here. |
| Material, Labor | With waste × rate, rounded to the cent. |
| Total | Material + labor. |
The last row, Job total, adds the material, labor and total columns. The same total shows at the right of the table's header.
Type into a waste or rate cell and press ReturnEnter or click away to apply it. A value TakeoffCraft cannot read is outlined in red and the status bar says why, for example "Type an amount like 12.50."
Click an item's row to highlight its marks on every sheet and jump to a sheet that has them (the same as clicking it under Items).
By sheet
Choose By sheet to see each item's quantity on each sheet, with the number of marks. Click a row to open that sheet with the item highlighted. Use it to check that every sheet was taken off, or to split quantities by floor or area of work.
The Incomplete warning
When something is left out of the totals, the header shows a warning, for example:
"Incomplete: 1 formula error, 6 marks on sheets with no scale (not in the totals)"
- Formula errors: an assembly component's formula cannot be worked out. Its row says "Formula error: …". See Assemblies and formulas.
- Marks on sheets with no scale: give those sheets a scale. See Set the scale.
The same notes go into the exported spreadsheet, so an incomplete estimate never looks complete.
Highlight an item
Click an item under Items or in the table. Its marks stay at full strength on every sheet and the rest fade. The sheets list shows "(n) highlighted" on each sheet with its marks. Click the item again to stop highlighting.
Item totals in the side panel
Each item in the Items list shows its quantity too. The item editor's Measured block shows the values its formulas use: length, runs and wall area; area, perimeter and number of areas; or count.
Marks on PDFs that are not open
A takeoff can include marks on PDFs you have not opened this time. They still count in every total; the sheets list names those PDFs. See Save and reopen a takeoff.
More room
The arrow button at the right of the Quantities header hides the table so the sheet gets more room. Choose it again to bring the table back.