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When drawing floors/roofs we often have to input beams, blocking, etc. and I would love to have a right click menu to choose how that line interac...

Can you add a feature or an option so that when a takeoff is located within a folder, and all of that takeoff within the folder is hidden, a takeo...

Below are a few hide/unhide functions that have been swimming around in my head since I started using zzTakeoff: Hide/unhide gray folders and...

When drawing a line I want to be able to right click a line and change how many ply the line is. To make a single drawn LVL a 3-ply LVL would be ...

When drawing a line if I could right click and choose to add a count to that line and adjust the spacing that would be very helpful. I think I can...

The blue highlighted details that link to the relevant detail page are great. I would like a simple right-click to open in a new tab or window. ...

Love to have the ability to bookmark posts so I can find them later.

When you click on the current page on screen, could the left auto scroll to the highlighted page name instead of having to scroll to find it? I n...

I'm playing around with the new update this morning and really like where the new Section Properties feature is going. A couple suggested imp...

Is there a way of creating more default layers? This way they are available without the need to set them up with every new project.

I think Section Properties are zzTakeoff's answer to OST's Areas function. If so, there needs to be a way to be able to visualize which takeof...

I would like the capability to organize template libraries by folder structure (or something similar). Rather than scrolling through dozens for th...

If this idea is crazy, it's ZZ's fault for redefining the takeoff world as we used to know it! In the world of rigid pipe, every angle deviat...

Is there a way to attach docs in ZZ? For us, it's support docs like specs, Bid Forms, DB Schedules, etc... These are not plans of course but it wo...

Do you offer an API or any kind of scripting feature? I would like the flexibility to write custom code to help automate parts of my workflow ...

A peer of mine ran into an issue today trying to set the scale on a plan to 3/64" = 1'. Currently the custom scale input boxes only seem to accep...

This is turning out slick and I believe we don't need to have a lame question and answer assemblies in our estimating software anymore! Sugges...

We like to highlight page & bookmark titles in Bluebeam as a visual queue during the takeoff process. Color coding also helps with faster navigati...

Could there be an actual button to click to get to all the extra tools instead of space bar 3 times or / ?

Both Bluebeam and OST allow the user to add Lines, Squares & Circle annotations over drawings. These basic drawing tools are helpful when working ...