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Ready to Test: December 2025 Release with a Ton of New Features
16h 55m
We just deployed the latest beta to our TEST server. If you have time, please test it out and let us know what you think. For bug reports in this ...
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Sneak Peek Video for the New Features Updates that are coming soon!
22d 13h
Hi everyone, Derek and I created an overview video showing some of the many features that are currently being tested in the .dev server at zzTake...
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Planned
Collecting Input: Plan Sets / Versioning
23d 12h
In the upcoming release, we've added a bunch of settings when adding new plan pages to your project. Now you can attach the new uploaded pages to ...
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Grid Tool, Joist Tool, and Beam Tool
24d 13h
These tools are working their way up our priority list. There are many users asking for them. We need to finish up our current release before we c...
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Ability to Install Desktop Icon / Shortcut
33d 22h
Quite a few users have asked us for a way to put an icon on their desktop for zzTakeoff. We have a basic installer now for Windows and Mac. To be ...
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Sneak Preview: Plans Tab with Thumbnails
37d 19h
This is just the beginning (bare bones) of this tab where you can see thumbnails and previews. We have some plan versioning features coming in the...
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Collecting input: Manual Area, Manual Linear, Manual Count, etc.
44d 4h
We are thinking to create a Manual Area, Manual Linear, etc. If this option is chosen, you could just manually enter inputs as numbers: Ar...
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Minor Update: Vertical Linear, Sneak Preview for Box Mode
51d 14h
Point counts now have the ability to choose Vertical Linear as one of the measurement outputs. For example: if a count takeoff has 4 points, and d...
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Collecting Input: Plan Sets & Plan Versioning
58d 12h
One of our developers is starting work on the plan versioning in zzTakeoff. We have some good ideas how we anticipate going about it, but we'r...
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Collecting Input: Context Menu Near Selected Objects
63d 17h
What do you guys think if we move the context-aware toolbar buttons next to the selected objects on the page. Less mouse movement. There is a risk...
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Minor Update: Skip (2) When Copy/Paste Takeoffs, Templates, and Items
71d 16h
Users were having too much friction when duplicating and modifying their items & templates with this (2), (3), etc. so we disabled it by default. ...
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Sneak Preview: Dark Mode, More Colors, Takeoff Worksheet, etc.
79d 19h
Dark Mode Our upcoming release will have an option for dark mode (also with a separate option to invert the plans as well if you choose): ...
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Minor Update: Resizable Properties Popup
84d 18h
Now you can resize the popup and it will remember the size even if you refresh the page. We're working on lots of other updates behind the scenes...
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Ready to Test: Improvements to File Cache / PDF Point Snapping in Background
94d 18h
We just deployed the latest to the TEST server: Large files are properly caching - this is a big deal for speed. Most large PDFs were not cachin...
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Collecting Input: Cache Size
95d 8h
Many sets of plans are very large files. What cache settings would you like to see in zzTakeoff to control how much storage space it uses to optim...
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Ready for Testing: Copy/Paste Between Pages of Different Scales
106d 19h
Copied from Foundation Plan at 1/4"=1' Scale: Pasted on Cover Page with Custom Scale:
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Minor Update: Updates to Callouts & Notes, Copy / Paste Scale, Legend Tweaks, etc.
108d 16h
Callout Annotation Callouts can now support font, bold, italic, underline, and border radius. We also added bold, italic, and underline to Note...
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Minor Update: Opacity for Linear, Legend Column Headers, Custom Scale, etc.
112d 19h
Opacity on Linear You can how set opacity on Linear takeoffs similar to the other takeoff tools. Legend Column Headers Looks a lot...
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Ready for Testing: PDF Point Snapping
119d 23h
We just deployed an update to our TEST server with PDF point snapping 🙂 In this screenshot the area is snapping to the PDF points while drawi...
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Collecting Input: Line Widths / Area Calculation
120d 18h
I'm curious how you guys would expect a "Linear with Width" to calculate. Currently it just takes the total length and multiplies it by the width ...
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