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Menu: Drawing > Plan View and Layout Tools > Take Offs

Default Commandline shortcut: showtakeoffs

Related Settings:

 None

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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.

 

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.

•Grid Columns

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

 Block Name or Entity Type - obvious.

 IgnoreInCount - Ignore me when counting.