Autodesk Quantity Takeoff 2012

Autodesk® Quantity Takeoff building cost estimating software helps make material costing faster, easier, and more accurate. Cost estimators can create synchronized, comprehensive project views that combine important information from building information modeling (BIM) tools such as Revit® Architecture, Revit® Structure, and Revit® MEP software together with geometry, images, and data from other tools. Automatically or manually measure areas and count building components, export to Microsoft® Excel®, and publish to DWF™ format.

Features:

• Takeoff in minutes automatically—Perform a takeoff on an entire building information model (BIM) in just minutes through integration of 2D and 3D design data.
• Greater flexibility than typical databases or spreadsheets—Perform interactive examination of 3D models for material cost estimating purposes.
• Dynamic counting—Count and quantify design data quickly and easily.
• More efficient manual takeoff—Supports the takeoff of JPG, TIF, PDF, and other “nonintelligent” image formats.
• Share, query, and clarify—Generate quantities linked to specific objects. Mark up and “round-trip” your comments.
• Faster and more insightful quantity reports—Create summaries and detailed quantity surveying reports quickly and easily.

Cost Early, Cost Often

Autodesk® Quantity Takeoff software helps make cost estimating faster, easier, and more accurate, from design through delivery.

With Autodesk Quantity Takeoff software, cost estimators can easily create synchronized, comprehensive project views that combine pertinent information from building information modeling tools (such as Autodesk® Revit®
Architecture software, Autodesk® Revit® Structure software, Autodesk® Revit® MEP software, and Autodesk® Inventor® software) with geometry, images, and data from other applications. Take advantage of digital property data to automatically or manually measure areas and count or price building components such as walls, doors, and window. Then print the results, export to Microsoft® Excel® software, or publish to DWF™ fi le format.

Stay Digital
More consistent productivity depends on up-todate drawings and data. Autodesk Quantity Takeoff reporting tools helps enable users to create digital, detailed materials reports much faster than paperbased processes. With Autodesk Quantity Takeoff , you can keep your workfl ow digital and help ensure that reports, materials quantities, and other data remain up to date.

Stay Realistic
More effi ciently count and quantify building components and their compositions. Related components are more easily cross-referenced to help ensure that your valuable time is spent costing, ot counting.

Stay on Track
Autodesk Quantity Takeoff uses the latest Autodesk® technology to provide drawing, viewing, quantifi cation, and markup capabilities, uniting design data and other vital information within an open and fl uid architecture. So you can better keep track of changing variables without missing a beat.

Stay Digital and Up to Date

Use Autodesk Quantity Takeoff software to collect and synchronize design data and help streamline cost-estimation processes.

Takeoff in Minutes Automatically
Autodesk Quantity Takeoff software provides a whole new way of working. Through full integration of and support for 2D and 3D design data, Autodesk Quantity Takeoff helps enable you to perform a takeoff on an entire building information model in just minutes—as opposed to days using traditional methods. The software provides greater fl exibility than typical databases or spreadsheets, enabling a smoother, more accurate workfl ow for cost estimators. Working in 3D, you can perform intuitive, interactive model examination to gain a better understanding of the model for estimating purposes. Object visibility and transparency are adjustable according to building section or component type. The highly confi gurable project catalog makes the organization of design and construction objects quicker and easier.

Do It Yourself
Autodesk Quantity Takeoff now has more powerful manual takeoff capabilities that support the takeoff of JPG, TIF, PDF, and other “nonintelligent” image formats. Use multiple line segments, arcs, or a combination of line and arc segments when tracing geometry on a fl oor plan. Specify whether to treat a series of continuously drawn segments as a single takeoff measurement or as individual takeoff measurements. More rapidly perform area calculations, linear measurements, and counts, and organize your results more quickly and easily in the project catalog.

Spot the Diff erence
If you are working with DWF fi les, you can use the Sheet Compare function to compare 2D sheets from your current takeoff project with an internal or external sheet. Then you can more quickly generate a list of modifi cations and view a visual representation of the diff erences.

Quantify More Quickly
Now you can count and quantify all of your project design data more quickly and easily. Use unlimited component subassemblies to categorize and count materials to an infi nite level of detail. Use the Search Takeoff function to help expedite takeoff of similar intelligent drawing objects. Organize them in the component catalog, then more quickly analyze your results in the dynamic Autodesk Quantity Takeoff Workbook.

Maintain a Dynamic Document of Record
The Autodesk Quantity Takeoff Workbook helps enable cost estimators to compile, update, and interact with quantity-related project data. In the workbook, you can switch between a cost summary view and a detailed object view for any item. View information for the current sheet or for the entire project. Add and edit item and assembly formulas, and defi ne item properties, directly in the Workbook, using Auto Fill and other tools that function like those in Microsoft Excel. Enter overrides for item and object dimensions. See which items and objects contain overrides. All contents can be saved for a comprehensive document of record at project’s end.

System Requirements:

Operating System

• Microsoft® Windows XP Professional
• Microsoft® Windows Vista
• Microsoft® Windows 7

Web Browser

• Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7.0 or higher

Processor

• Intel® Pentium® IV processor, 800 MHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor (or faster)
• Multiple processors supported
• Dual core supported

Memory (RAM)

• 2 GB (minimum)
• 4 GB (recommended)

Hard Disk

• 550MB free space

Display Resolution

• 1024 x 768 True Color (minimum)

Display Card

• 128 MB Video Adaptor Card (minimum)
• 256 MB or greater, Direct 3D compatible 3D Video Adaptor Card (recommended)