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Drawing > Plan View and Layout Tools > Take Offs

Commandline: showtakeoffs

 

Explanation

Often we need to count items in the plan view space for quoting or other purposes. The Take Offs tool facilitates this process by filtering the drawing for specific entity types on specific layers then counting those instances.

 

Possible Uses

•Quote preparation.

•Trouble-shooting.

 

Related Topics

How to Pull a Take-off

 

Dialog Options

•Print - Print the grid.

•Export - Export the grid.

•Layer - What layer are we searching for the selected entity type(s).

•Entity Types - What entity type(s) are we searching for.

•Generate - Do It! The results will be displayed in the grid.

•Count - Count the items in the list. The results will be displayed in the right-hand list.

•ItemHandle ShowMe - Zooms to show the item in the drawing.

•IgnoreInCount - Ignore me when counting.