Publishing My Pipe Takeoff Plugin

Hi Braley! Very cool. We don't yet have a way for users to publish to the store. Currently only our internal team can post plugins in the store. Are your intentions to put it up for free or are you wanting to charge a fee to generate income? We don't have a mechanism yet for billing for plugins (but we plan to add it). All of our current plugins are free.

Thanks for the reply! I’d be happy to offer the pipe takeoff plugin for free to start. My main goal is to get it in the hands of other estimators, get feedback, and keep improving it. If paid plugins become an option later, I’d be interested in learning how that would work. What would your team need from me to review it for the store?

Awesome! 🙂 We don't have the exact ETA, but we will work towards getting the ability for you to share it. Mostly we are just fine tuning the install flow, upgrade flow, and review flow before we open it up beyond our internal team publishing to the Plugin Store.

Hi, Braley & Heber. I too have built a Pipe Takeoff plugin. Mine is modeled after the Planswift Trenching Tool in their Earthwork Pro Plugin but with several improvements. I also built a 3-D modeling plugin that allows you to view the utility & trench takeoff and include over-excavation if you need to. Just today I merged the two plugins into one. I was curious if a process exists that allows me to compile my plugin and either move it to others workspaces or export it so they can import it into their own workspace. I want to get feedback from other estimators on what improvements should be made.

I'd love to see a video or walkthrough on how you create these plugins. Or just a general idea of how you started or what prompts you came up with.

Hi Tyson. I don’t know if your post was directed generally but for me I would be happy to set up a Zoom and walk through what I built and how. Since I posted last I have built a footing excavation plugin that takes the footing dig, subtracts the concrete volume of the footing, and returns the value of the soils backfilled and what is exported. I also built in an over-excavation calculator to account for any over-ex under footings that might be called for. Let me know and I will figure out how to DM you. I have also pretty heavily modified the pipe trenching tool.

That would be great. Maybe we could do a zoom or google meet later this week. My email is tellison@bhico.com. Send me an email and we can try to schedule something up. I'd love to see how you came up with these awesome tools. Thanks man!!

I'd love to join this call if possible! cpowers@colantonioinc.com

I'd like to join too... I was just thinking about building a UG Utility Plugin - To piggyback on your workflow Gary would be awesome.

Kheddy@argonautconstructors.com

Best,

To Chris & Kevin, tomorrow's meeting has been scheduled by Tysen so to be part of that one you would need to ask him. Otherwise, I can schedule another meeting with both of you to go over the changes I have made to the Earthwork 3-D Suite (I have Todd's permission), the Footing 3-D Suite (I built this for footing excavation), and the Utility 3-D Suite (I built this for utility excavation as well as pipe qty's). I can show you some template parts I have built (this is what I am working on now).

Just sent invites to Chris and Kevin.