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ConstructConnect Takeoff™ (CCTO)

PlanSwift™ Professional (PS) 

On-Screen Takeoff Professional™ (OST)

OST w/Quick Bid™ Estimating (QB)

Bid (Project, Job, Tender, Estimate, etc.) Creation

Create Base Bid

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Create Alternates and Change Orders

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Create Project Versions

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Organize Projects in or by Folders

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Takeoff and Measurements

Access Artificial Intelligence-Powered Takeoff Boost™ to automate takeoff

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Use Multi-Condition Takeoff(patented) to speed up drawing measurements

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Measure (take off) Linears, Areas, and Counts

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Generate multiple quantity results based on takeoff measurements

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Save takeoff quantities

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View a Legend of takeoff results per page

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Auto Count

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Create and Save Conditions/Takeoff Items

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Assign Takeoff to Layers and Areas

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Toggle Layers on and off to show/hide various takeoff objects

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Create Custom Layers

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Use Typical Takeoff to speed up takeoff process

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Use Zones to breakout takeoff quantities

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Custom Input Forms & Takeoff Tool Customization  

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Duplicate and Reassign Takeoff to Different Conditions

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Use Advanced Pasting Controls to speed up the takeoff process

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Draw/Record with multiple Conditions/Takeoff Items at the same time

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Takeoff curved areas

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Draw, Copy, and Paste Backouts (area deductions)

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Earthwork Pro Plugin for site work, excavating, etc.

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Digitizer (hard board) support

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Exports, Reports, and Pricing

Price Materials and Labor

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Use eQuotes to obtain up-to-date Material Pricing from vendors

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Price using built-in Worksheet

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Export takeoff results (and the estimate) to sharable file

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Export takeoff bid to create project in Quick Bid

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Export takeoff quantities to Excel or CSV

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Export priced Condition/Takeoff Item quantities to Excel or CSV

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Drag-and-Drop Assemblies and Parts onto takeoff

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Customize formulas

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Link takeoff results directly to Excel

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Link bid to work interactively with Quick Bid Estimating

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Generate bid reports for analysis

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Generate bid proposals and quotations

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Export to various Accounting packages 

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Manage the project in Digital Production Control (DPC)

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Plan Organization

Access AI-powered Auto Naming to speed setup of Pages

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Download plans from ConstructConnect's Platform

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Download plans from other Planrooms

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View plans in color

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View raster images (tiff, cal)

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View vector and CAD images (pdf, dwg, dwf, etc.)

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View photo images (jpg, png)

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Organize and match up drawing revisions

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Compare revisions using Overlay feature

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Compare multiple revisions using Overlay feature

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Annotation Tools

Add text to the drawing

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Using electronic ink to markup drawing

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Highlighter tool

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Create Hot Links, Named Views, Bookmarks

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Create Punch Lists and Punch Items

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Stamps annotation

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Attach a file directly to a Page

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Turn Image Legend on and off

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Ungroup, move, or edit the Image Legend

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Collaboration

Allow multiple estimators to work on takeoff concurrently

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Allow employees within the organization to see each other's work

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Export and share bids with other users over the internet

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Share bids with users outside your organization

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Share bids between home office and field

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View projects in ConstructConnect's Web Takeoff app

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Data Access

Set permissions

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Custom permissions

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Access data from MS Access or SQL Database

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Backup and restore information

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Store and access your data in the Cloud

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Onboarding

Training Videos, Webinars, Online Help

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Unlimited estimator assistance (How Do I…?)

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Custom training

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Custom Training in Spanish

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On-Site/Classroom training

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Sample projects

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Sample estimating Items & Assemblies

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Trade-specific Items and Assemblies

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Manufacturer Items and Assemblies

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Earthwork Pro Plugin for site work, excavating, etc.

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Notes

(a) You can define a maximum of 3 results
(b) Optional Plugin or Add-on available (may require purchase)
(c) You can link On-Screen Takeoff Condition Results to Excel
(d) One user can work in OST and another other on the QB side, but not at the same time
(e) See Backup your PlanSwift Jobs for details
(f) See OST/QB Can I Use "Cloud" Storage? or PlanSwift - Storing Your Jobs on a Network Drive for details