New Update: Customizable Hotkeys, Export Vector PDF, Resizable Nodes & Auto-Size Legends, Page Thumbnail Resize, Auto Count Improvements, etc.

We just released another update based on community feedback. Thank you for your participation here and for helping us improve zzTakeoff. 🙂

Customizable Hotkeys

You can now choose your own hotkeys. Go to Settings > Hotkeys, click any shortcut, and press the keys you want. There's a search box to find a command quickly, a reset arrow on each row to go back to the default, and a Reset All button.

Export Vector PDF (Beta)

You can now export PDFs with the vector data intact, optionally with takeoffs and annotations as toggleable layers.

Resize Nodes + Auto-Size Legends

Boxes, notes, images, and legends now have corner and edge handles, so you can resize them by dragging any side or corner (instead of 2 points at opposite corners). Legends now automatically grow and shrink on their own as takeoffs are added or removed.

Page Thumbnail Resize

There's now a thumbnail size slider on the Add Pages popup, the Plans tab, and the Pages sidebar, so you can make the thumbnails as big or as small as you like.

Add Pages Popup:

Plans page:

Plan Dimmer

Fade the plan so your takeoffs and markups stand out. You can turn this on from the Pages sidebar. This is a per-user setting, so it won't affect other users in the project.

If the dimmer is enabled, you also get a dimmer % in the footer:

Draggable Midpoints - Move or Extrude a Segment

Every straight segment of a linear or area takeoff now has a square handle at its midpoint. Drag it (or move it with the arrow keys) to slide the whole segment while the segments on either side keep their angles. You can also hold Ctrl while dragging to extrude.

Snap to Midpoints

You can also enable "Snap to Midpoints" in Settings > Snapping.

Plans Tab - Expand / Collapse Buttons

The Plans tab has new expand and collapse buttons. Each click opens or closes one more level of folders, and Shift+click expands or collapses everything at once. You can also set a default expand level so the tab opens the way you want it every time.

Sheet Size in the Footer Bar

The status bar on the takeoff page now shows the sheet size of the current page, with the common name (ARCH D, ANSI B, A1, etc.) in the tooltip when it matches a standard size.

Misc.

• Auto Count - Better Matching + Keyboard Review
• Right-click pan on Linux now works
• Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y no longer undo search in sidebars when doing takeoff
• New features in testing now show as "Ready to Test" on Inside Track with a link to test the individual feature & to discuss.
• Various bug fixes and tweaks

Thanks for all your feedback & suggestions! 🚀