How To: Pull a Take-Off from a Drawing

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How To: Pull a Take-Off from a Drawing

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1.Open a plan view drawing.

2.Click Plan View Tools > Take-Offs.

3.Select the Insert check-button.

4.Then click [Generate]. This generates a list of all Inserts in the drawing.

5.Click [Count]. This counts the different inserts in the drawing. The results appear in the list on the right.

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Now let's say we want to count all circles on the CEIL_SPKR layer.

 

1.Open a plan view drawing.

2.Click Plan View Tools > Take-Offs.

3.Select the Circles check-button, and select the Layer on which to search.

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4.Click [Generate]. This produces a list of all the circle entities found on the selected layer.

5.Click [Count]. This counts them and outputs the result in the right-hand list.

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6.As you can see we have 20 circles that appear on the CEIL_SPKR layer.