What it costs
Every quantity priced at your rates, in your currency, with the working shown on each line so a figure can be argued with rather than believed. Change a rate and the total follows.
₹1,636 / sq ft over 454 sq ft
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Measure · Plan · Collaborate · Execute
Measure the building.
Price the job.
Send the sheets.
Tag the walls in your drawing and every trade is measured off it — structure, finishes and all the services. What it costs, how long it takes, who you need and what to order all follow from that one measurement, and so do the sheets you hand over.
The drawing is measured in your browser and stays there. Opening one takes an account, which is free.
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Measure
Everything you would otherwise count by hand.
Tag which lines are walls — click one, drag a box, or take a whole layer at once — and the rest is measured off the drawing. Every figure below moves the moment a wall does, so there is no second take-off to keep in step with the first.
Shell and structure Walls and the frame that carries them, what they stand on, the slabs and the roof over the top, the stairs between, and the drop under a wet floor. 6 items
№Item
What comes off the drawingUnit
01
Walls
By what they are built of — brick, fly ash, AAC, block, laterite
m³ cu ft
02
Frame
Columns and beams, with a span checked against its own depth
m³ cu ft
03
Foundation
Excavation, blinding, footings, plinth beams, backfill
m³ cu ft
04
Slabs and roof
Floors, ceilings, the roof, and the parapet round it
m³ cu ft
05
Stairs
Risers that come out equal, and the flight's concrete
m³ cu ft·no.
06
Sunk floors
The drop under a wet room: its fill and its tanking
m³ cu ft·m² sq ft
Finishes Plaster inside and out, what each room is floored in and how many tiles that actually takes, the ceilings and linings above and around it, paint, the roof's own wearing course, and the work outside the walls. 7 items
№Item
What comes off the drawingUnit
07
Plaster
Both faces inside, the whole face out
m² sq ft
08
Floors
Room by room, in what each is actually laid in
m² sq ft
09
Tiles
Counted as tiles on their own set-out, not as area divided
no.
10
Ceilings and linings
Boarding, panelling, dado, skirting
m² sq ft·m ft
11
Paint
Litres and the labour, less whatever is tiled over
L·m² sq ft
12
Roof finish
Screed to falls, membrane, the wearing course on top
m² sq ft
13
External works
Compound wall, gate, paving, planting, site lighting
m² sq ft·no.
Services Everything that runs through the walls and under the floor — power, water, waste, air, gas, data and fire — each measured along the route it is actually laid, and checked against the others for where two of them want the same space. 15 items
№Item
What comes off the drawingUnit
14
Electrical
Points per room, boards, conduit and wire by size
no.·m ft
15
Load and schedule
Connected load, the circuits, and what to sanction
kW·no.
16
Plumbing
Fixtures, hot and cold runs, waste by bore
no.·m ft
17
Water
Tank and sump, the pump, and what a roof would harvest
L·HP
18
Sewage
Septic tank and soakaway, sized for who lives there
m³ cu ft·no.
19
Cooling
A load per room from its own walls, glass and roof
TR
20
Ventilation
Extract where there is no window, and its duct
no.·m ft
21
Gas
A cylinder bank or a meter, the pipe, the connections
no.·m ft
22
Fire
Detectors, sounders, call points, extinguishers
no.·m ft
23
Escape
The walk from each room to a way out, past the walls
m ft
24
Data and security
Outlets, access points, and what each camera sees
no.·m ft
25
Solar
An array laid on the roof, its stand, and what it saves
kWp·kWh
26
Irrigation
Drip where the planting is, spray across the lawn
no.·m ft
27
Lift
Car, shaft and stops, where the storeys ask for one
no.
28
Clashes
Where two services have been given the same space
no.
Before you build What the drawing tells you before anybody digs: whether the authority will allow it, what has to arrive on a lorry, who is needed to lay it, and how many weeks of it there are. 4 items
№Item
What comes off the drawingUnit
29
Planning
Coverage, floor area ratio, setbacks and height
%·m ft
30
Materials
Bricks, bags, sand, steel — what arrives on a lorry
no.·kg lb
31
Labour
People by trade, from the work there is to do
no.
32
Programme
How long it takes, and what waits on what
weeks
Out: the bill as PDF, Excel or CSV — with the schedules
a contractor works from
And the model: IFC, for whoever asks for one
Plan
Decide it before anybody digs.
A quantity on its own is not a decision. These are what the measurement is for — each one falling out of it rather than being guessed at beside it.
How long it takes
A programme in weeks, with the trades in the order they can actually work and the wet months you lose where you are building.
trades in sequence · weeks
Who and what you need
People by trade, from the work there is to do. Bricks, cement, sand and steel as quantities somebody can order, with the wastage a lorry actually arrives with.
masons · bags · brass · kg of steel
Whether it is allowed
Ground coverage, floor area ratio, setbacks and height read against the authority's own schedule — indicative, editable, and never presented as a sanction.
coverage · FAR · setbacks · height
Collaborate
One project, not a file going round by email.
Share the job
Invite by email. An editor changes the plan; a viewer can open it and read every figure but cannot move a wall.
Say it on the plan
A note is pinned to the point it is about — this beam is in the way, this door opens wrong — so the comment arrives attached to the thing rather than to the project.
Walk a change back
Every save is kept. Open what the plan was last Tuesday, see who changed it, and put it back if the change was wrong.
One rate card
The office prices at the same rates, so two people quoting the same job do not quote two different numbers.
Execute
What leaves the office.
A take-off is only worth what you can hand somebody. These come out with your practice name on them, at your rates, from the drawing you measured.
The bill
Every line, its quantity, its rate and what it comes to — as a PDF to send, an Excel to edit, or a CSV for whatever you use instead.
PDF · XLSX · CSV
The schedules
Doors and windows, the finishes room by room, the electrical board, the sanitary fittings — the sheets a contractor works from rather than a total they have to unpick.
six schedules, with their basis stated
The purchase list
What to buy, in what a supplier sells it in: bricks by the thousand, cement by the bag, steel by the kilo.
ordered, not estimated
The model
IFC, for whoever asks for one — the walls, slabs, frame, spaces and openings, with the areas you measured attached to the rooms.
IFC4, and it opens
Pricing
See the whole answer free. Pay for the sheet you send out.
Every plan opens, builds, walks through and costs — free, on any drawing, with no card, with every trade on that schedule measured. What a paid plan adds is the take-off itself: the line under each figure, at your rates, in a file you can hand to a client or a supplier.
₹0
forever
Enough to know whether it is right.
- Any DXF, the whole model, and the walkthrough
- Every trade on the schedule, measured
- What it costs, per trade and per square foot
- The tonnage each room needs, and where it goes
- One project, kept to your account
₹1,499
per month
For quoting from it.
- Everything in Free
- The take-off itself — every line, its quantity, and the working that got there
- Your rates, not ours, on every line
- The sheet you send — PDF, Excel or CSV, with the schedules a contractor works from
- What to order: bricks, bags, sand and steel
- The model as IFC, for whoever asks
- Unlimited projects
₹4,999
per month
For a team quoting jobs.
- Everything in Studio
- Projects shared, with a note left on the plan itself
- One rate card the whole office prices at
- Every save kept, so a change can be walked back
- Your practice name on what goes out
The free plan is not a trial and does not expire. It stops exactly where a drawing stops being something you are checking and starts being something you are sending.
Accounts
Opening a plan takes an account.
Your projects are on your account.
It is free, it takes an email and a password, and there is no card. What it buys you is a project that is yours: it opens on any machine you sign in from, your rates travel with it, and you can put it in front of somebody else without sending them a file.
Signed in. Anything you keep opens on any machine you sign in from, and your rates travel with it.
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The measuring itself runs in your browser and needs nothing from us, so a plan will still open and still be costed. What has to wait is keeping it: sign in once we are back and the project travels with you.