Q & A
Mark Fly Enter Quantities Manually
Some roofing Projects will use an outsourced drone company, such as, EagleView that gives all the quantities. The plan is to have all the assemblies, or builds already in ZZT for all the components. But since I would not necessarily be doing takeoffs in the normal sense, I still want to use the formulas I have built. Perhaps I click on the item I would normally takeoff, and have an option to enter the quantity? Has anything like this been considered yet?
You can see my project called Eagleview for reference.
Hi Mark! Sorry for the delay responding to this. We've had some discussion on how to do this. Maybe there is some kind of a toggle between "Formula" or "Manual Entry" for quantities of an item. We've also discussed ways to "adjust" a quantity that may be derived from a formula. We could maybe even allow the same type of idea for the takeoff itself, such as an area, linear, count. So maybe you can add an area and you can toggle to "Manual" mode to enter the square footage, etc. Then you could apply items & assemblies in the same way you would to an area that you measured by clicking points. So I agree, it would be great to have ways to override these things.
I need this ability also. I export all measurements from Revit BIM models such as LF of wall by type and height, area of roof etc. I would like to have a "Manual QTY" takeoff type where I could just type in the manual QTYs and my have items under it that can use the "Manual QTY" in formuals. I would then continue using the other takeoff tools for things that were not modeled.
If there was an Import Tool or Form Tool to fill in the "Manual QTYs", that would be icing on the cake.
Would also be helpful for items that you want to add to your takeoff report that cant be "measured" or you know arent on the plans but were told to include "this many sqft" for an allowance/contingency that you want in your takeoff report.
@ Brandon,
Great point. This is exactly why we use a estimating tool on top of our takeoff. There are so many items (especially when we are doing early concept takeoffs) that we have to "forecast" and can't actually measure. I would prefer to keep that ability in the estimating tool but not a bad idea to also have the ability in the takeoff tool too!