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- Open PlanSwift and start a new job (Figure 1). Enter a Job/Quote # (use "12345" or another name of your choice) and a Description, such as "Garage", then click on Next.
Figure 1 - In the Image Files window (Figure 2), click Next to skip it (or if you do have images, you can load them here). Either load your images or click Yes when you're asked if you want to continue without adding any images. Images may be added later.
Figure 2 - Click Next on the Convert Settings window (Figure 3).
Figure 3 - Click on Finish in the Ready to Create Job window (Figure 4).
Figure 4 - Click on the green plus (+) under Pages,Bookmarks (Figure 5), click on Blank Page, and then click on Next. (Or you can add pages from image files of your choice here by selecting the From Image Files option.)
Figure 5 - In Figure 6, give this page a new name "General" and click on Finish.
Figure 6 - The "Garage" job is now open and set up (Figure 7) and you can see the General page. Click on Takeoff Summary to display the Takeoff Summary window (Figure 7).
Figure 7 - The Takeoff Summary window is visible in Figure 8, which shows the General page.
Figure 8 - Now that your job is set up, navigate to the template file that you wish to have loaded into PlanSwift as an Excel workbook (Figure 9), and double-click on the file to open it as a workbook. In this case, we're using PlanSwift Sample Converted.xltx.
Figure 9 - This opens the PlanSwift Sample Converted.xltx template file into a workbook file (Figure 10). Click on File and save this file to a location of your choice, then Click on the Swift Excell PlanSwift Ribbon-bar Tab.
Figure 10 - To connect this workbook to the PlanSwift Garage job, click on Connect.
Figure 11 - When connected, the Connect icon toggles to a red Disconnect icon (Figure 12). Now, while watching the Takeoff Summary window in PlanSwift, click on the Export to PlanSwift icon.
Figure 12 - The template items will populate in the Takeoff Summary window. Click on the black + to open all of the folders (Figure 13) .
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Figure 13 - The Pages,Bookmarks window (Figure 14) will now allow you to see the takeoffs you execute from Swift Excel. Move back to the Swift Excel window.
Figure 14 - Click on cell F50 (arrow 1 of Figure 15), and then click on the Continue With icon.
Figure 15 - After the takeoff is completed (Figure 16), the New Area and the takeoff area value appears in the Pages,Bookmarks window.
Figure 16 - That workbook cell F50 will now reflect the number of 2x4x8' pieces of precut material required for that takeoff and will also display the pricing ($5.37) for those pieces (Figure 17).
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Select Attachments (arrow 1 in Figure 9) to open the Attachments window (arrow 2 in Figure 9), and double-click on the Rand Template.xlsx workbook (arrow 3 in Figure 9). Notice that the file suffix for Rand Template is no longer .xltx but is now .xlsx, indicating you are no longer working in a template, but rather a workbook of the same name.
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The opens an Excel window (Figure 10) where you'll see the Rand Template.xlsx name at the top. You can also see the Area, Linear, Segment, and Count labels in cells A2 to A5.
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Click on the PlanSwift Tab, then click on Connect (Figure 11).
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Once connected, the TakeoffGroup icons on the Swift Excel PlanSwift Ribbon-bar Tab are available to initiate takeoffs and perform other actions (Figure 12).
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At this point, you now have two options. You can either export the Rand Template items into PlanSwift, or you can simply perform takeoffs, initiating them from Swift Excel. Click on the Export to PlanSwift in the Swift Excel PlanSwift Ribbon-bar Tab and perform some takeoffs. Figure 13 shows an example of the values both in PlanSwift and in Swift Excel after some takeoffs have been completed.
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