PDF markup and construction take-off

Drawings,
measured.

Mark up a PDF drawing, set its scale, measure it and count what's on it, in your browser. Nothing to install, and your drawing stays on your computer.

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An invited trial for now. Testers sign in with their email.

Roof plan.pdf

Open any PDF.

Drag a plan in, or pick one. It's read on your computer, so a client's drawing stays a client's drawing.

Set the scale once.

Click both ends of a dimension you know and type what it is. Everything you measure after that comes out in real millimetres, metres or feet.

Measure. Count. Total.

Lengths, areas and counts snap to the drawing's own lines. The take-off builds itself beside the sheet, and you can see where every number came from.

Mark it up like a reviewer.

Revision clouds, notes with leaders, stamps, signatures, a pen and a highlighter. Marks are never counted as measurements, so a cloud can't end up in a bill.

Do it together.

Start a Dato Room, share the link, and everyone is on the same sheet, following along, pointing and marking up at once.

Made for the sheet.

The small things that decide whether a program is a pleasure to use at the end of a long day.

Local first

Your drawing is processed on your own computer. Saved work lives in your browser, and you can export a project file whenever you like.

Never lost on a big sheet

A navigation map shows where you are when you've zoomed right in, and pages draw as you reach them.

Guides, not clutter

A grid and margin line for setting things out, with the spacing in the status bar. Only on your screen, never on the drawing.

A dark sheet

Show the white paper dark and the black lines light for working at night. The file and the numbers don't change.

Fix a crooked scan

Trim the margins, turn the sheet and straighten a photographed plan by two points, without touching the original.

A take-off you can send

Group what you measure, add rates and wastage, and export a report or a workbook your client can read.

Learn as you go

Walk-throughs that show a tool being used on a practice sheet, and a Help and Learn book written for people who do this job.

Level up, if you like

An optional, quiet way to see yourself getting better: medals from bronze to platinum. Off until you switch it on.

Dato Rooms

One sheet. Everyone on it.

Share a drawing live with a link. See who is looking at what, follow whoever is presenting, and mark up together. Everyone opens the same drawing on their own computer, and only the marks and pointers travel, sealed on the way.

Nobody needs an account to join.

Local: first, always
33: tools, and a finder that knows every one
Any: modern browser, nothing to install

Ready when you are.

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