Quantity Takeoff

Quantities are how you back your scopes with real numbers, for your own internal processes. Struction lets you take off quantities directly on the drawings and link them to your scope items — and it reads the scale off almost every drawing automatically, so you don't have to.

Where takeoff works

You can take off and annotate a drawing wherever you can open it: in Focus View (from either map), in the Detail Panel, and by clicking a quantity in a Scope of Work. Marks and measurements you make on a page show up on every instance of that page, everywhere it appears.

Three ways to get a quantity

1. Measure it yourself with the takeoff tools — Area, Lineal, or Count. Pick a tool from the toolbar and trace the measurement on the drawing, then link it to a scope item with the link button in the quantity panel.
2. Let Struction pull it from a schedule. Struction can read counts directly out of a drawing's schedule and turn them into a quantity for you.
3. Type it in. Enter a quantity directly on a scope item if you already know it.

How quantities and measurements fit together

• A measurement is a single takeoff on a drawing (one traced area, one line, one count).
• A quantity is one or more measurements added together. It has a name (Quantity #1, #2, …) you can rename, and can span multiple pages.
• You link a quantity to a scope item to fund that item's number. A scope item is funded by one quantity; a single quantity can fund more than one item.

The link icon on a scope item tells you how its number was derived — from a Schedule, an Area, a Lineal, or a Count takeoff — and whether Struction or a person produced it.

Scale

To measure accurately, the drawing needs a scale. Struction detects the scale automatically on most drawings and shows it in the corner of the sheet. You can override it by measuring a known dimension or by entering the scale yourself. If a sheet holds several drawings at different scales, Struction still picks them up — turn on Regions and adjust the scale per region.

Annotations

Alongside takeoff, you have markup tools — Draw, Highlight, Cloud, Comment, and Eraser. These are visual marks that stick to the page (they're not measurements). Use them to flag something for a teammate, circle an area of concern, or leave a note. Like takeoff, an annotation appears on every instance of that page.