MEP Takeoff Studio

DXF symbol extraction can populate counts. Enter or confirm each project X/Y/Z anchor so spatial handoffs use the shared P0 top-left origin.

Cascading Manufacturer → Model dropdowns for each bathroom detected in your entities (any room containing “bath”). Pick a fixture and click Add to push it into the takeoff with its brand/model spec. Lines are an editable seed library — confirm model availability and specifications or connect a supplier feed later.

Paste the fixture schedule from a print — the table of marks, descriptions & quantities. The parser proposes a fixture list; review and correct it, then add it to the takeoff. Works no matter how the schedule arrived (DXF, PDF text, or typed). Load a sample.

Optional. Used to reconcile field conditions against the drawing (e.g. a condenser in a photo but not in the entities).

Your persistent price book — it carries forward across jobs and stays current as you edit. Material costs are yours to fill (every wholesaler differs); labor hours are editable suggested baselines. Saved in this browser; use Export/Import to back up or move it between machines.

The closed loop. You bid with your baseline; the job runs; reality happens. At close, enter or upload the final actual costs, then carry them forward — the actual end tally of this job becomes the baseline for the next. Your numbers self-correct every job.

The second door of the loop. Paste a finished, priced takeoff from a completed job — the cost sheet this tool produces — and fold its actual line costs back into your baseline. Each job you feed in pulls every item’s unit cost toward current reality: a shifting mean that re-centers as prices move (recent jobs weigh more). Reads Description · Qty · Unit Cost; subtotals, totals and headers are ignored. Load a sample.

No dollar signs in your sheet (a raw supply-house export, say)? Tell the parser which columns to read — 1 = first column, reads comma, tab, or spaced columns. Leave blank to auto-detect by the “$”.

Teach the tool your office's CAD conventions. When a DXF is parsed, each entity's block/symbol (and optional layer) is matched here (case-insensitive “contains”) to an assembly. First match wins.

Material = Σ(qty × your unit cost). Labor = Σ(fixtures × hrs × trade rate). A draft estimate from your own rates — verify against field conditions and final supplier quotes before bidding.